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

Making Game contributes significantly to the genre of the meditative essay in its treatment of the author's relations to the natural world. Atkinson reflects on the philosophical and ethical nature of hunting wild game, finding in that activity existential clues that connect him first to his family of origin and then more broadly to the tradition at large. Always the work of 'making game' strives to understand the self. Although non-technical, the writing is informed by the author's significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy and classical Greek literature.
This book will appeal to readers of literature with a theoretical bent, as well as those interested in questions of autobiography and identity, especially in relation to issues of family and personal identity.

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.