Making Game An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is

Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. This engaging essay is informed by the author’s significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy.

About the Author

Peter L. Atkinson received his doctorate in philosophy (1999) and his master of fine arts in English Poetry (1993) from the University of California at Irvine. He lives in New Mexico.

Reviews

A bold narrative and philosophical ramble through subjects ranging from hunting, to the natures of consciousness and erotic desire, to ancient literature and philosophy, to the meaning of parenthood and family.

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