Got Dummett?

KariRoad

I've put together a list of books by Michael Dummett (etc.) which in some way relate to Tarot, here listed just as taken from an on-line source (to preserve search details). Are there others? And, which is/are considered de rigueur..?

A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack: The Game of Triumphs, Vol. 1
Michael Dummett John McLeod
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Press
402 Pages
isbn-10: 0773464476, isbn-13: 9780773464476

A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack: The Game of Triumphs, Vol. 2
Michael Dummett John McLeod
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Press
910 Pages
isbn-10: 0773464492, isbn-13: 9780773464490

History of the Occult Tarot
Michael Dummett; Ronald Decker
Hardcover, Duckworth Publishing
320 Pages
isbn-10: 0715631225, isbn-13: 9780715631225
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A History of the Occult Tarot
Ronald/ Dummett, Michael Decker
Hardcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
isbn-10: B001E3N7B6, isbn-13: B001E3N7B6
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History of the Occult Tarot
Michael; Decker, Ronald Dummett
Hardcover, Duckworth Publishing.
isbn-10: B001K2CM0S, isbn-13: B001K2CM0S


The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards
Michael Dummett
Paperback, George Braziller
141 Pages
isbn-10: 0807611417, isbn-13: 9780807611418

Twelve Tarot Games
Michael Dummett
Hardcover, Duckworth Pub
242 Pages
isbn-10: 0715614851, isbn-13: 9780715614853

Tarot triumphant
Michael A. E Dummett
Unknown Binding, Franco Maria Ricci International
isbn-10: B0006YQAE0, isbn-13: B0006YQAE0

A WICKED PACK OF CARDS. The Origins of the Occult Tarot
Ronald, DEPAULIS, Thiery and DUMMETT, Michael DECKER
Paperback, St. Martin's Press
isbn-10: B000J01HKI, isbn-13: B000J01HKI

The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City
Michael Dummett
Hardcover, Duckworth
600 Pages
isbn-10: 0715610147, isbn-13: 9780715610145

A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack: The Game of Triumphs
Michael Dummett, John McLeod
Paperback, Maproom Publications
80 Pages
isbn-10: 0956237002, isbn-13: 9780956237002
 

KariRoad

Tarot works listed by Wikipedia (with helpful dates) :

The Game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City (Duckworth, 1980);
Twelve Tarot Games (Duckworth, 1980);
The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards (G. Braziller, 1986);
Il mondo e l'angelo: i tarocchi e la loro storia (Bibliopolis, 1993;
I tarocchi siciliani (La Zisa, 1995);
A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot (with Ronald Decker and Thierry Depaulis, St. Martin's Press, 1996;
A History of the Occult Tarot, 1870-1970 (with Ronald Decker, Duckworth, 2002);
A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack (with John McLeod, E. Mellen Press, 2004).

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Notable articles and exhibition catalogs include "Tarot Triumphant: Tracing the Tarot" in FMR, (Franco Maria Ricci International), January/February 1985; Pattern Sheets published by the International Playing Card Society; with Giordano Berti and Andrea Vitali, the catalogue Tarocchi: Gioco e magia alla Corte degli Estensi (Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editorale, 1987).
 

KariRoad

additional books

of further note, see books section
The International Playing-Card Society
@350 members world-wide run by a members' elected council

http://i-p-c-s.org/

Chairman Thierry Depaulis, past President Michael Dummett (1981-1983).
Contributors include Ron Decker, Thierry Depaulis, and John McLeod. :)
 

Moonbow

I've got Dummett! :)

In fact I have decided to sell it so if anyone is looking for the Game of Tarot for a very reasonable price please PM me.
 

DoctorArcanus

"Il Mondo e l'Angelo" was originally meant to be the Italian translation of "The Game of Tarot", but actually it resulted in a revised and extended book. I think that, unless you can read Italian, "The Game of Tarot" is the best book to start studying tarot history.
 

frelkins

While we're on the subject, let me say that I was at a conference of logicians in Japan last March. There I met several senior mathematicians, and I asked if any of them had known Dummett well.

As you recall, he was a towering figure of 20th century analytical philosophy, mathematics & logic. In his works you must include the enormous collected philosophy: The philosophy of Michael Dummett / edited by Randall E. Auxier and Lewis, Edwin Hahn. It must be nearly 750 pages. Key take-away - he hated Plato & Platonists.

After asking around for a couple of days, I was introduced to an Austrian logician, Matthias Baaz, of Vienna. I asked him if he had known Dummett well, and if in fact he had ever played cards with him - Dummett's reputation was that he rarely lost a game of cards. Very rarely.

Herr Doktor Professor Baaz was very clear: "Oh yes," he replied, "No one knew him better than I." "Really?" I asked. "What was he really like?" "He was a true English gentleman, much concerned with social questions, who sought a knighthood," Baaz answered. (Dummett was a devout Catholic who campaigned against racism.)

"How did you come to know him so well?" I asked. "I went and spent 2 entire weeks with him in England, discussing his whole philosophy," Baaz said. "Several times."

"And then?" I asked. "Then," Baaz said with a small smile, "I returned to Vienna and wrote a long paper absolutely refuting everything he had done." "But you never played cards with him?" I pressed him on this point. "Oh no," Baaz said, "He could barely keep his arguments alive against me." Baaz looked at me directly with a flat, steely eye: "He became emotional you know. The English." :)