TY - JOUR
T1 - Ants, grasshoppers, asshoppers, and crickets cohabit in Utopia
T2 - the anthropological foundations of Bernard Suits’ analyses of gameplay and good living
AU - Lopez Frías, Francisco Javier
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this article, I consider Alkis Kontos’ and Allan Bäck’s critiques to Suits that his theory of games and good living lack ontological grounds or rests on the wrong foundations. Taking these critics as my point of departure (not as my critical target), I provide an analysis of the main tenets of Suits’ anthropology. This anthropology partly lays the grounds that Kontos and Bäck claim Suits’ theory lacks. I proceed as follows, I examine Suits’ early works, to which Kontos and Bäck had access, to argue that they contain an anthropology, albeit in an embryonic state. Subsequently, I examine Suits’ latter works, which remained inaccessible to Kontos and Bäck when they formulated their critiques, to identify and explain the key elements of Suits’ anthropology.
AB - In this article, I consider Alkis Kontos’ and Allan Bäck’s critiques to Suits that his theory of games and good living lack ontological grounds or rests on the wrong foundations. Taking these critics as my point of departure (not as my critical target), I provide an analysis of the main tenets of Suits’ anthropology. This anthropology partly lays the grounds that Kontos and Bäck claim Suits’ theory lacks. I proceed as follows, I examine Suits’ early works, to which Kontos and Bäck had access, to argue that they contain an anthropology, albeit in an embryonic state. Subsequently, I examine Suits’ latter works, which remained inaccessible to Kontos and Bäck when they formulated their critiques, to identify and explain the key elements of Suits’ anthropology.
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U2 - 10.1080/00948705.2021.1969241
DO - 10.1080/00948705.2021.1969241
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113474610
SN - 0094-8705
VL - 49
SP - 117
EP - 133
JO - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
JF - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
IS - 1
ER -