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The Grasshopper - Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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The Grasshopper - Games, Life and Utopia (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common
threads that link them all. "Nonsense," said the sensible Bernard
Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome
unnecessary obstacles." The short book Suits wrote demonstrating
precisely that is as playful as it is insightful, as stimulating as
it is delightful. Through the jocular voice of Aesop's Grasshopper,
a "shiftless but thoughtful practitioner of applied entomology,"
Suits not only argues that games can be meaningfully defined; he
also suggests that playing games is a central part of the ideal of
human existence, and so games belong at the heart of any vision of
Utopia. This new edition of The Grasshopper includes illustrations
from Frank Newfeld created for the book's original publication, as
well as an introduction by Thomas Hurka and a new appendix on the
meaning of 'play.'
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