While primarily an articulation and defense of a highly plausible definition of games, it also manages to raise some of the deepest and most challenging questions about the meaning of life. Philosophically profound, yet genuinely funny. We may be able to regain thereby the meaning lost as advances in technology enable us to escape one by one the tasks that necessity used to impose on humankind." (David Braybrooke) Suits offers more: an application of his definition in a discussion of how much we may have to rely on games――deliberately using relatively inefficient means to reach freely stipulated goals――if life is to continue to have meaning.
That is achievement enough to make a new classic in the history of philosophy. Defying certain discouragements, Suits constructs an illuminating definition of games, which he defends in lively dialogues, amusing parables, and cascades of subtle analytical distinctions. "Like Erasmus's Praise of Folly and Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Suits's The Grasshopper sparkles with wit and fun and outranks those wonderful works in clear, firm philosophical conclusions. 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." (Simon Blackburn) Bernard Suits not only makes philosophy enjoyable, as it should be, but does so without any compromise of real profundity. Published in cooperation with the University of Calgary Press, supplementary volumes are complimentary with a paper subscription to the Journal, and are also available from uniPresses."This unique book quite bowled me over, both intellectually and as a gorgeous literary feast. In addition to its four quarterly issues, CJP publishes an annual Supplementary Volume of invited papers on a topic of current philosophical interest. CJP's annual acceptance rate is typically close to 8%. All papers are blindly reviewed and are selected on the basis of whether they make significant, original contributions to the philosophical debates they address. The Journal receives close to 300 submissions every year from an international community of authors, and it uses a distinguished international list of philosophers to referee these submissions. CJP aims to publish the best work in any area of philosophy in French or English.
Since its founding, CJP has grown into a widely respected philosophy journal with an international reputation. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1971 by four Alberta philosophers, John King-Farlow, Kai Nielsen, T.M.
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