{"product_id":"9781447207115","title":"The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, \u003ci\u003e Independent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e We all \u003ci\u003ethink \u003c\/i\u003ewe know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. \u003ci\u003eThe Play Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – \u003ci\u003eThe Play Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Play Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, \u003ci\u003eThe Play Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154673549552,"sku":"9781447207115","price":9.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781447207115_p0.jpg?v=1763828086","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781447207115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}