Return of the grasshopper : games, leisure and the good life in the third millennium
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Return of the grasshopper : games, leisure and the good life in the third millennium
（Ethics and sport）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The sequel to Bernard Suits' classic book on the philosophy of games and sport The Grasshopper, published in full for the first time
Suits is one of the most influential philosophers of all time in the philosophy of sport and games, a staple of all reading lists for courses on this topic
Return of the Grasshopper includes clues intended by Suits to help the reader to unlock the riddles posed in the original The Grasshopper, so it's an essential companion to that classic book
In Return of the Grasshopper, Suits goes further in his exploration of existential and political themes
Includes introductory chapters that put Suits' life and work in context, examining the key themes he addresses in both The Grasshopper and Return of the Grasshopper
Table of Contents
Introduction - Bernard Suits' Return of the Grasshopper: A Philosophical Context and Novel Directions for Future Research, 1. Return of the Grasshopper, 2. Utopia Lost or Mislaid, 3. Three Ways to Play a Game Without Knowing It, 4. Three More Ways to Play a Game Without Knowing It, 5. Life's a Game and All the Men and Women Merely Players, 6. At Death's Door, 7. The Smoking Gun, 8. Utopia Found, 9. Utopian Doctors and Lawyers, 10. Lusory Luddites, 11. The Scarcity Machine, 12. The End of the Future, 13. Aesop Revisited, Appendix 1: An Introduction to Grasshopper Soup, Appendix 2: Deconstructionist Digression, Appendix 3: A Perfectly Played Game
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