Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium [Book Review]

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 50 (2):304-309 (2023)
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Bernard Suits is without a doubt one of the most influential scholars in the philosophy of sport. His book The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (first published in 1978) is a classic and ‘must r...

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10.1080/00948705.2023.2177167

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