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Bernard Suits The Grasshopper (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- The Grasshopper
- Title
- The Grasshopper
- Subtitle
- Games, Life and Utopia
- Contributor
- Thomas Hurka (Introduction by)
- EAN
- 9781554812158
- ISBN
- 9781554812158
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 30/04/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Length
- 152mm
- UPC
- 9781554812158
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
- Illustrator
- Frank Newfeld
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Topic
- Popular Philosophy
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 215 Pages
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This unique book quite bowled me over, both intellectually and as a gorgeous literary feast. Bernard Suits not only makes philosophy enjoyable, as it should be, but does so without any compromise of real profundity. He engages not only Wittgenstein but human life itself at the highest level, in a book that challenges philosophical orthodoxies, while all the time flowing like honey. - Simon Blackburn, Cambridge University Playful and deep. A delightful book. A little-known classic. - Nigel Warburton, freelance philosopher and co-host of Philosophy Bites 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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Broadview Press Ltd
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Book Title
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
Illustrator
Frank Newfeld
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
215 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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