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51 – Suits – The Grasshopper

Game Studies Study Buddies

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The Grasshopper Games Life in Utopie by Bernard Suits

Bernard suits' classic philosophical work, The Grasshopper games life in utopia published in its full and unabridged form for the first time. In return of the grasshopper, suits puts his theoretical cards on the table, exploring the in depth implications of his definition of utopia. He also explains how games can provide an existential balm against the fear of death. For the first time in print, suits reveals his underlying worldview that humanity is forever faded to endure a cyclical existence of privation brought on by material scarcity and boredom resulting from material plenitude.

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