Atkinson Peter L. Making Game: An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is

Athabasca University Press, 2009. — 184 p.Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. Through the activity of hunting, Atkinson finds a connection to the roots of his identity: both his family history and his sense of self.This engaging essay is informed by the author’s significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy, represented by the work of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.Making Game is the second book in the Cultural Dialectics Series, edited by Raphael Foshay of Athabasca University.Peter L. Atkinson holds a PhD in Philosophy and an MFA in English Poetry from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Mathematics from New York University.