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The Grasshopper
- Games, Life and Utopia
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Grasshopper af Bernard Suits, 9781554812158
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
215
ISBN-13:
9781554812158
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
3
ISBN-10:
1554812151
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,4 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2014
Forfatter(e):

The Grasshopper

- Games, Life and Utopia
Engelsk
Paperback 2014
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
215
ISBN-13:
9781554812158
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
3
ISBN-10:
1554812151
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,4 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2014
Forfatter(e):
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