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Bernard Suits The Grasshopper (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- The Grasshopper
- Publication Name
- Grasshopper : Games, Life and Utopia
- Title
- The Grasshopper
- Subtitle
- Games, Life and Utopia
- Illustrator
- Frank Newfeld
- Contributor
- Thomas Hurka (Introduction by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781554812158
- ISBN
- 9781554812158
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 30/04/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Features
- New Edition
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 262 Pages
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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 Grasshopperincludes 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.'
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Broadview Press
ISBN-10
1554812151
ISBN-13
9781554812158
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057261610
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Grasshopper : Games, Life and Utopia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
262 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hx806s78 2014
Edition Description
New Edition
Edition Number
3
Reviews
"Like Erasmus's Praise of Follyand Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Suits's The Grasshoppersparkles with wit and fun; and outranks those wonderful works in clear, firm philosophical conclusions. Defying certain discouragements, Suits constructs an illuminating definition of games, which he defends in lively dialogues, amusing parables, and cascades of subtle analytical distinctions. That is achievement enough to make a new classic in the history of philosophy. Suits offers more: an application of his definition in a discussion of how much we may have to rely on games-deliberately using relatively inefficient means to reach freely stipulated goals-if life is to continue to have meaning. We may be able to regain thereby the meaning lost as advances in technology enable us to escape one by one the tasks that necessity used to impose on humankind." - David Braybrooke, Dalhousie University / The University of Texas at Austin "The Grasshopperis an amazing book. Philosophically profound, yet genuinely funny. While primarily an articulation and defense of a highly plausible definition of games (and we all know what Wittgenstein said about that), it also manages to raise some of the deepest and most challenging questions about the meaning of life. All in the form of dialogues between an insect and his disciples! There is simply nothing else like it." - Shelly Kagan, Yale University "Philosophers are not generally known for fine writing, but once in a generation or two a book appears out of nowhere, unclassifiable, inspired, amazing, mesmerizing, wonderful, classic … " - Philosophy and Literature
Table of Content
Introduction Preface Acknowledgements The Players Chapter One: Death of the Grasshopper Chapter Two: Disciples Chapter Three: Construction of a definition Chapter Four: Triflers, cheats, and spoilsports Chapter Five: Taking the long way home Chapter Six: Ivan and Abdul Chapter Seven: Games and paradox Chapter Eight: Mountain climbing Chapter Nine: Reverse English Chapter Ten: The remarkable career of Porphyryo Sneak Chapter Eleven: The case history of Bartholomew Drag Chapter Twelve: Open games Chapter Thirteen: Amateurs, professionals, and Games People Play Chapter Fourteen: Resurrection Chapter Fifteen: Resolution Appendix One: The fool on the hill Appendix Two: Wittgenstein in the meadow Appendix Three: Words on play Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Sociology of Sports, General, Utopias
Lccn
2019-410084
Dewey Decimal
793/.01
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Games & Activities, Sports & Recreation, Philosophy, Political Science
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