![]() ![]() 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. "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. ![]() In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable there are no common threads that link them all. Through the jocular voice of Aesop's Grasshopper, a "shiftless but thoughtful practitioner of applied entomology," Suits. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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