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The Grasshopper

- Games, Life and Utopia
Af: Bernard Suits Engelsk Paperback

The Grasshopper

- Games, Life and Utopia
Af: Bernard Suits Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 215
ISBN-13: 9781554812158
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave: 3
ISBN-10: 1554812151
Kategori: Moderne filosofi: efter 1800
Udg. Dato: 3 apr 2014
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: Broadview Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 3 apr 2014
Forfatter(e): Bernard Suits
Forfatter(e) Bernard Suits

Kategori Moderne filosofi: efter 1800

ISBN-13 9781554812158

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 215

Udgave 3

Længde 13mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 228mm

Udg. Dato 3 apr 2014

Oplagsdato 3 apr 2014

Forlag Broadview Press Ltd