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  title info:
    title: Hobbit virtues
    sub title: rediscovering virtue ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings
  name:
    name part: Snyder, Christopher A. (Christopher Allen)
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 254 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: A response to our fractured political discourse, Hobbit Virtues speaks to the importance of "virtue ethics" by examining the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, with particular attention to his hobbits. Tolkien's works resonate with so many readers in part because Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin demonstrate Classical, Judeo-Christian, Medieval and even Hindu and Confucian virtues. Tolkien ennobles the small, the humble, and the marginalized in his Middle-earth writings and presents leaders who are hesitant to exercise power, are courteous and value wisdom and learning. Each chapter in Hobbit Virtues consists of a wide-ranging discussion of a single virtue, exemplified by a character in Middle-earth, explaining its philosophical or theological roots and how the virtue is still relevant in a modern democracy. It will also include appendices where readers can find passages in Tolkien's and Lewis's works that discuss virtue ethics, and a glossary of virtues from ancient to modern, East to West. Tolkien's readers come from many different religious and secular backgrounds and the pleasure and profundity of Hobbit Virtues is that mutual respect for public virtues is, especially now, necessary for a well-functioning pluralistic society
  table of contents: Tending your garden -- Humility -- Courage -- Fellowship -- Good cheer : food, drink, and laughter -- Telling stories and singing songs -- Service, selflessness, and self-sacrifice -- Mercy -- Virtue and vice in Middle-Earth -- Being small in a big world -- Aristotle's moral virtues -- The catechetical virtues -- Virtues of the east and west, ancient and medieval -- C.S. Lewis and the Tao.
  note: Christopher A. Snyder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
      name part: 1892-1973
    topic: Characters
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
      name part: 1892-1973
    topic: Characters
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Hobbits (Fictitious characters)
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Virtue in literature
  subject:
    topic: Ethics in literature
  classification: PR6039.O32 S6368 2020
  classification: 823.9
  identifier: 9781643134109
  identifier: 1643134108
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191101
    record change date: 20211018100610.0
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