The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia

by Bernard Suits

Overview

Wittily illustrated by Frank Newfeld, THE GRASSHOPPER is itself the kind of game of which it treats: a spirited and challenging intellectual adventure that is also, quite simply, good fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802067449
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	09/01/1990
Series:	Heritage
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Bernard Suits is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, the University of Waterloo. Thomas Hurka is Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, the University of Toronto; his works include Principles (a collection of his Globe and Mail columns), Perfectionism, and Virtue, Vice, and Value.

Table of Contents

Introduction Thomas Hurka

Preface Acknowledgments The Players

One: Death of the Grasshopper

Two: Disciples

Three: Construction of a definition

Four: Triflers, cheats, and spoilsports

Five: Taking the long way home

Six: Ivan and Abdul

Seven: Games and paradox

Eight: Mountain climbing

Nine: Reverse English

Ten: The remarkable career of Porphyryo Sneak

Eleven: The case history of Bartholomew Drag

Twelve: Open games

Thirteen: Amateurs, professionals, and Games People Play

Fourteen: Resurrection

Fifteen: Resolution

Introduction to the Appendices

Appendix 1: The Fool on the Hill

Appendix 2: Wittgenstein in the Meadow