Sophie's World : A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Description
Ex-philosophy teacher Jostein Gaarder & Albert Knos stimulate 15 year old Sophieto ask those fundamental questions which have exercised the imaginations of Children Phiolosophers since the dawn of civilisation.
Looking in her mailbox one day, a fourteen-year-old Norwegian schoolgirl called Sophie Amundsen finds two surprising pieces of paper. On them are written the questions: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?"
The writer is an enigmatic philosopher called Alberto Knox, and his two teasing questions are the beginning of an extraordinary tour through the history of Western Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Sartre. In a series of brilliantly entertaining letters, and then in person. Alberto Knox opens Sophie's enquiring mind to the fundamental questions that philosophers have been asking since the dawn of civilisation.
'Remarkable... What Jostein Gaarder has managed to do is to condense 3,000 years of thought into 400 pages: to some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them... Sophie's World is an extraordinary achievement' Sunday Times
'Sophie's World is set to become a unique popular classic: a wonderfully engaging mystery story that also forms a completely accessible and lucid introduction to philosophy and philosophers' The Times
Publisher: Phoenix Book
Publication year: 2000
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Pages: 512
Language: English
ISBN: 9781857992915
Dimensions: 13.41 x 3.0 x 19.81 cm
Weight: 0.31 kg