...Esther Leslie Throughout his life, Benjamin returned to questions of pedagogy and the ways in which children and adults come to know and learn. This essay explores his notion of Spielraum , or “playspace,” in relation to pedagogy. A pedagogy based on play is here explored in relation to three...

... reflections do not call for strict discipline but emphasize the neces- sity of creative pausing, intermission. Only such interruption provides the Spielraum, room for play, that all mastery hinges on. For work [Arbeit] which achieves only modest success is child’s play [Kinderspiel...

... of Benjamin’s “freier Spielraum” (literally, “free space of play”) in rendering it simply as “stage.” Benjamin’s allusion is, I believe, less to a theatrical performance than to the Kantian epi- stemic function of the “free play of imagination,” as expounded in both his Critique of Pure Reason and his...

... for and in part also a concretization of three elements from the analytic of Dasein in Being and Time. It combines the notions of Entwurf, world, and horizon into one effect. “Der Entwurf ist die existenziale Seinsverfas- sung des Spielraums des faktischen Seinkönnens” (Heidegger 1963: 145). “Design” would...