Philosophy and Terry Pratchett /
Sir Terry Pratchett, who has sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide, is read and respected by people with a wide range of interests. This book, the first to explicitly address philosophical themes in his work, will appeal to fans of Pratchett, to philosophers interested in popular c...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; James B. South
- PART I: SELF-PERCEPTION, NARRATIVE, AND IDENTITY
- 1. A Golem is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman: Gender on the Disc; Jacob M. Held
- 2. 'Nothing Like a Bit of Destiny to Get the Old Plot Rolling:' A Philosophical Reading of Wyrd Sisters; James B. South
- 3. 'Feigning to Feign:' Pratchett and the Maskerade; Andrew Rayment
- 4. 'Knowing things that other people don't know is a form of magic:' Lessons in Headology and Critical Thinking from The Lancre Witch; Tuomas W. Manninen
- PART II: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- 5. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy on the Discworld; Kevin Guilfoy
- 6. Plato, the Witch and the Cave: Granny Weatherwax and the Moral Problem of Paternalism; Dietrich Schotte
- 7. Equality and Difference: Just because the Disc is flat, doesn't make it a Level Playing Field for All; Ben Saunders
- PART III: ETHICS AND GOOD LIFE
- 8. Millennium Hand and Shrimp: On the Importance of Being in the Right Trouser Leg of Time; Susanne E. Foster
- 9. Categorically Not Cackling: The Will, Moral Fictions and Witchcraft; Jennifer Jill Fellows
- 10. The Care of the Reaper Man: Death, the Auditors, and the Importance of Individuality; Erica L. Neely
- 11. 'YES, SUSAN, THERE IS A HOGFATHER:' Hogfather and the Existentialism of Søren Kierkegaard; J. Keeping
- PART IV: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS
- 12. On the Possibility of the Discworld; Martin Vacek
- 13. Pratchett's The Last Continent and the Act of Creation; Jay Ruud.