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The Grasshopper
Games, Life and Utopia
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Artikel-Nr:
9781554812158
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.04.2014
Seiten:
215
Autor:
Bernard Suits
Gewicht:
342 g
Format:
228x151x17 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
The late Bernard Suits was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo.
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.