Playing cards

Sylvia Mann

pp. 187-199

in: Barry M. Taylor (ed), Michael Dummett, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstract

A hobby has many functions. It provides relaxation, entertainment, indulgence in esoteric language and, usually, opportunities for conviviality with like-minded beings. The term as used here excludes avaricious accumulation and obsessed loners. (I once went to a convention of patience players which no one else attended.) What it is meant to cover is the sort of interest and enjoyment Michael Dummett experiences in his study of playing-cards and the games played with them.

Cited authors

Dummett Michael