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Philosophy has given little –not to mention modern sciences- in explaining what this game is about. No treatise, few phenomenologies and almost no hermeneutics, dedicated to something so trivial and complex, at the same time, as is the game. What do we play? How do we do it and for what purpose? Does the game cover some mysterious meaning? What about the logos with the game? From an essentially ontological perspective, the article addresses these questions through a brief exegesis of the thinkers that seem fundamental to the question of the game. The meaning of the game, then, emerges in a ritual and almost cosmological relationship with chance itself. The nod in the title to the famous novel by George R.R. Martin, was not only looking for a mere play on words that anticipated –in the idea of a logos “playing”- the possibility of a clarifying criticism of the playful reason, already thought by Holzapfel in 2003. Game of Thrones would be, in reality, something like the paradigm of the postmodern game, a true vanishing point for a bewildered Homo ludens

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  • Philosophy has given little –not to mention modern sciences- in explaining what this game is about

  • About the logos with the game? From an essentially ontological perspective, the article addresses these questions through a brief exegesis of the thinkers that seem fundamental to the question of the game

  • Se asemeja más bien a un titiritero que con una gran carcajada nos deja inmóviles en una determinada posición, mientras procede a mover las otras piezas de nuestra existencia, para, luego de volver a darnos movimiento, hacer con sus hilos que el juego continúe

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Philosophy has given little –not to mention modern sciences- in explaining what this game is about. Las cuatro secciones que forman este escrito se centrarán en las respectivas teorías sobre el juego de Huizinga, Caillois, Baudrillard y Holzapfel, e-ISSN: 1562-384X Año XXV, Número 79 Enero-Junio 2021

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