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. The short book Suits wrote demonstrating precisely that is as playful as it is insightful, as stimulating as it is delightful.
Nonsense, said the sensible Bernard Suits: playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Nigel Warburton, freelance philosopher and co-host of Philosophy Bites In the mid-twentieth century, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable there are no common threads that link them all. Simon Blackburn, Cambridge University Playful and deep. He engages not only Wittgenstein but human life itself at the highest level, in a book that challenges philosophical orthodoxies, while all the time flowing like honey. Bernard Suits not only makes philosophy enjoyable, as it should be, but does so without any compromise of real profundity. This unique book quite bowled me over, both intellectually and as a gorgeous literary feast.
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