Mechthild Nagel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Courtland. She is coeditor of Race, Class, and Community Value (2000).

Mechthild Nagel's Masking the Abject is a fascinating study of the concept of play in Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Nagel emancipates European thinkers from the spirit of gravity that weighs down traditional interpretations, and teases out the humor, irony, and wit that play below the surface of these profound texts.

• Chapter 1 Tragic Play in the Presocratic WorldChapter 2 Plato's Play: The Demise of the DionysianChapter 3 Aristotle's Malediction of PlayChapter 4 Play of the Enlightenment: Kant and SchillerChapter 5 Play and Cunning in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Mechthild Nagel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Courtland. She is coeditor of Race, Class, and Community Value (2000).

Mechthild Nagel's Masking the Abject is a fascinating study of the concept of play in Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Nagel emancipates European thinkers from the spirit of gravity that weighs down traditional interpretations, and teases out the humor, irony, and wit that play below the surface of these profound texts.

• Chapter 1 Tragic Play in the Presocratic WorldChapter 2 Plato's Play: The Demise of the DionysianChapter 3 Aristotle's Malediction of PlayChapter 4 Play of the Enlightenment: Kant and SchillerChapter 5 Play and Cunning in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Mechthild Nagel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Courtland. She is coeditor of Race, Class, and Community Value (2000).

Mechthild Nagel's Masking the Abject is a fascinating study of the concept of play in Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Nagel emancipates European thinkers from the spirit of gravity that weighs down traditional interpretations, and teases out the humor, irony, and wit that play below the surface of these profound texts.

• Chapter 1 Tragic Play in the Presocratic WorldChapter 2 Plato's Play: The Demise of the DionysianChapter 3 Aristotle's Malediction of PlayChapter 4 Play of the Enlightenment: Kant and SchillerChapter 5 Play and Cunning in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit