Eugen Fink (1905¿1975) was a student and colleague of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Spiel als Weltsymbol was published in 1960. This is the first English translation.

Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner are Ph.D. students in Continental Philosophy at DePaul University. They are translators of Peter Trawny's Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy.

Translators' Introduction
Oasis of Happiness: Thoughts toward an Ontology of Play (1957)
Play as Symbol of the World (1960)
Chapter One: Play as a Philosophical Problem
Chapter Two: The Metaphysical Interpretation of Play
Chapter Three: The Interpretation of Play in Myth
Chapter Four: The Worldliness of Human Play
Play and Celebration (1975)
Additional Texts
Child's Play (1959)
Play and Philosophy (1966)
The World-Significance of Play (1973)
Play and Cult (1972-1973?)
Notes
The Philosophical-Pedagogical Problem of Play (1954)
Sport Seminar (1961)
Play and Sport (1962)
Notes on "Play and Philosophy" (1966)
Notes on "The World-Significance of Play" (1973)
Appendices
1. The Layout of the Volume and Description of the Texts
2. German Editors' Afterword
3. Bibliography of Fink's Works Available in English
4. Secondary Literature on Fink in English
Notes
Index

Eugen Fink. Translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner