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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder ebook
Publisher: Berkley
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0425152251, 9780425152256
Page: 258

Sophie's World By Jostein GaarderHerodotus “the world's first reporter” At first sight, a translation from Norwegian of a novel about characters in a book about philosophy seems an unlikely candidate for stimulating one of the liveliest discussions of the year for On more mature reflection, however, perhaps it should not have been so surprising that a best-selling book (30 million copies worldwide) on the history of philosophy would reawaken our “faculty of wonder. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics). Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder) – B Sophie's World manages to offer a history of philosophy in the form of a readable and engaging novel. The version of history that it offers, however, (particularly in the second half of the book) is doubtful. Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. My Aunt gifted me this book when I was about 14, and it's one of those books that really stayed with me. There is sophie, who gets a mystery philosophy teacher, who sends her long letters. In the eastern religions, the emphasis is more on a union of souls that everyone flows into, that is distant and impersonal. A genre-crossing European best-seller (file under fiction, philosophy, and young adulthood) with nearly a million copies sold to date, Jostein Gaarder's novel, at 400 pages, is a concise, clearly written corrective to philosophic obscurantism. Book cover of sophies world by gaarder. Sophie's World (Sofies verden) is a novel about the history of philosophy, and I thank Jostein Gaarder, himself a Norwegian philosophy teacher, for writing a very accessible book on such a subject. Sophie's World has rapidly become an international literary phenom. The foil for Gaarder's (11) orient her on a correspondence course in the history of philosophy that eventually turns into a Socratic tutorial. Sophie's World is a multilayered story bursting with twists and entertaining parallels to the non-fictional account of the story of philosophy, subtly interwoven into this friendly and unassuming novel. It is a novel about the history of philosophy. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics) List Price: $12.00 ISBN13: 9780374530716 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder //. Sophie's World a novel by Jostein Gaarder attempts to question the validity of everything we know through the history of western philosophy.