This new edition of The Grasshopper includes illustrations from Frank Newfeld created for the book's original publication, as well as an introduction by Thomas Hurka and a new appendix on the meaning of `play. 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. Nevertheless, AM is far from being a mature technology and advances are still needed from different perspectives. It enables the possibility to obtain objects with complex geometries and to exploit structural optimization algorithms. Nonsense, said the sensible Bernard Suits: playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Additive Manufacturing (AM) brought a revolution in parts design and production. 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.

The Grasshopper has played games all summer and now, with winter coming, he faces starvation. Simon Blackburn, Cambridge University Playful and deep. Bernard Suits’s The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia is an affectionate parody of a Platonic dialogue, with the Grasshopper from Aesop’s fable taking on Socrates’ role and debating two insect friends. 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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