2. Philosophy - Stefano Franchi

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A NACLASTIC SUPPLEMENTS
1. Game, Spiel, and the End
At the end of chapter 2, I proposed to interrogate the strong connection between the
“end of philosophy” (in all its aspects) and Spiel I had retrieved on Hegel by examining the
same connection in other, non-philosophical domains. I then proposed a search articulated
by four basic questions that can be summarized as follows:
(a) find out whether the concept of Spiel could be found playing a similarly crucial role
in other, non-philosophical efforts that are likewise striving to put philosophy to an end.
(b) find out how the concept of Spiel is internally articulated. i.e. find out which, if any,
concrete concept of game/play the disciplines in question would build from the very rich
and possibly contradictory range of phenomena we may associate with the words “game”
and “play,” a range that seemed to be polarized by the opposition serious games vs. chil-
dren’s play.
(c) find out how the conception of Spiel discovered in step (b) above would relate to
the more general (non-)philosophical discourse and its end. In particular, how it would deal
with the issues of the sense of the relationship between Spiel and end, and of the subject of
Spiel.
(d) finally, assess whether the particular conception(s) of Spiel described at (a)and (b)
would be up to the task required by (c). In other words, assess whether the goals of the non-
philosophical projects, their ends, could be reached by the use of the particular concepts of
Spiel deployed.