Bernard Suits
Canadian philosopher best known for work on the philosophy of games and play, author of The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia and the definition of playing a game as the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.
Books
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1. The Grasshopper
Games, Life and Utopia
A philosophical dialogue that examines the nature and value of play and games, arguing that playing consists in voluntarily adopting unnecessary rules and obstacles in order to achieve an agreed-upon end; it analyzes concepts like constitutive rules, lusory attitudes, and the distinction between means and ends, and uses this framework to explore why games matter, how they shape human life, and what a society organized around play could look like.
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