★Are video games related to philosophy? These two seemingly unrelated things have an interesting and deep connection. This book will show readers how classical philosophy and modern video games are inextricably linked.
★From the “popular culture” into the understanding of philosophy, philosophy is no longer obscure and boring, but is closely related to our lives.
★Video games are not just about pure entertainment, but also about narrative, aesthetic experience, moral dilemmas... and our daily lives are gradually being gamified. This book provides us new perspectives to re-examine familiar things.

Video games and philosophy seem like two worlds apart. Yet, on closer inspection, without philosophy, videogames would not have been possible. For the first time in human history, it is philosophy that thinks game and world together, thus laying the foundations of the most mature videogame and making it one of the most accomplished achievements of the philosophical tradition.
The game was born with the human being and exists well before philosophy, but the video game is not simply a game. It can be pure entertainment, a complex narrative, an aesthetic experience, a laboratory for moral dilemmas, or all of these things together; and it is no accident that our daily lives have become progressively gamified, almost without realizing it.
Tommaso Ariemma is professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics and one of the leading popularizers of so-called pop-philosophy, which uses the phenomena of “mass culture,” often thought to be far from philosophical reflection, not only as objects of analysis, but also as tools for philosophizing. In this exciting and original essay, the author delves into the issues that philosophy has never stopped discussing, showing them to us in the world of video games: life and death, reality and illusion, human and inhuman, choice and freedom, justice and ideal society.

Tommaso Ariemma is professor of Aesthetics and Sociology of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce. He has contributed significantly to the development of pop philosophy in Italy. Media theory, art and pop culture are his favorite fields of inquiry. Among others, he is the author of “Philosophy explained through TV series”(2017) and “Philosophy in the 80s”(2019), “The West laid bare”(2020), “Platone showrunner” (2022), “Dark Media” (2022).