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The notion of games in Heidegger and Wittgenstein. Similarities and dissimilarities

Ontology; Language; Games; Being-in-the-world; Life form.

This dissertation aims to expose the concept of Games (Spiele) in Heidegger and
Wittgenstein, pointing out similarities and dissimilarities in the authors approaches. In
Heidegger, the concept is presented in the winter classes of 1929 in Freiburg, which has the
title of Introduction to Philosophy. For Heidegger, games aim to make explicit a dynamic of
phatic interaction with entities within the world, from which descend the openings of:
Understanding, moods and language, that is, understanding their games means preliminarily
reassembling a terrain of ontic and ontological practices , which attests to the precariousness
of language to say the being and, at the same time, founds an originary and everyday
experience with the same in a formative dynamic of play. For Wittgenstein, games aim to
make explicit the varied uses that we can make of language in everyday life, with the
“concept of imprecise contours” of Games, the Austrian explicitly shows, in Philosophical
Investigations (1953), the multiple environment of linguistic interactions that they never
become detached from other activities or broad models of action. In general, we have, for
Heidegger, a concept that recovers a system of existential practices outlined in Being and
Time (1927), which serve to understand the formation of Being-in-the-world; and, for
Wittgenstein, a concept that involves, indiscriminately, in the praxis of language, practical
aspects that are predetermining and inherent to a way of living in community that are
interconnected with language in action. These general characteristics are better understood in
the course of the presentation of the games by the authors, who, in part, approach and distance
themselves, in the descriptions of what it means to play, follow a rule and be immersed in
context or in a sintonia. Finally, our work will reach its maximum objective, when trying to
think about conceptual comparisons combined with critical considerations about the use of the
concept among our philosophers.