Converging upon the insights of the Grasshopper and/or his disciples in respect to the nature, meaning and significance of play in its conceptual relation to work, I entertain-and successively reject-the play-to-work labour ethic, the work-to-play leisure ethic and the play-at-work labour ethic as inadequate to account for the ideal of human existence. As foundational to the enigma, I begin with a portrayal of the Grasshopper’s tangle of riddles about play, games and the good life. Appreciating the fine intricacies of this challenge, the purpose of this essay is to advance the quest for resolution via a consideration of play as a necessary element of the Grasshopper’s game playing Utopia. Reasonably embraced as a game in itself, the purpose of this metaphysical brainteaser is to present the reader with an enigma, with the challenge of its resolution serving as the very means by which one is to be brought into line with the logic of the Grasshopper’s Utopian thesis. Urn:oclc:22693063 Republisher_date 20170829161013 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 216 Scandate 20170828233958 Scanner for the game-parabling expressed in The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, Bernard Suits is revered as the author of the unorthodox claim that Utopia is intelligible and game playing is what makes Utopia intelligible.

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