Gaming the system : deconstructing video games, games studies, and virtual worlds /
Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions'put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and iek'can help us explore...
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[2018]
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