In the works of Jacques Derrida and other deconstructivists, the theme of the game is extremely important. One of the forms that this importance takes is that of puns (word games). Another has to do with insisting on the importance of the signifiers‘ play (the claim that the meaning of the text is not fixed or even stable, but open to novelty and even ironic additions).
The usual understanding of play as a spontaneous, pleasurable, and necessarily motivated activity covers to some extent the use of play, as understood by other authors.
Here is the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche – a German philosopher of the XIX century, who admits “I know no other way to associate great tasks than that of play.”
