The wheel of time and philosophy : a portion of wisdom /
Delve through a unique exploration of the philosophy underlying The Wheel of Time "The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten..." Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is a story of mythic pro...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2025]
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| Series: | Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A part of what we know
- Stories have power
- Tolkien's influence and the world of The Wheel of Time
- The Wheel of Time and authorship: The French connection
- We call ourselves gleeman because a silly name makes us less frightening: artists, marginality, and epistemic privilege
- Alive, Gloriously alive, today
- The Anti-Natalist and the Aes Sedai: Should Rand al'Thor save the world?
- Nietzsche's test of time: the Wheel as an existential imperative
- A world without Shai'tan: the significance of free will in The Wheel of Time
- Revelations from Rhuidean: Messianism and philosophy of history in The Wheel of Time
- The web can be woven many ways
- The (re)birth of sovereignty in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
- Eyes without pity...To have grown up thinking you were a person...
- Glimpsing the pattern and salvaging a semblance of choice
- Their choice to make: Rand's vision of free will and evil
- One rule, above all others...
- Kantian commentary on the three oaths: it just may not be the truth you think you'll hear
- On the supposed right to slay dragons because of philanthropic concerns: the mysterious ethics of the Aes Sedai
- Asha'man, kill on making weapons and the ethics of war
- The way of the leaf: pacifism in the third age
- Humankind is made for uncertainty
- Un/common bonds: ethics and polyamory in The Wheel of Time
- Fear of the beast within: Perrin, Hopper, and Human-animal relationships
- Gendered souls and bodies: Hylomorphism and the Saidin/Saidar distinction
- Epilogue: a portion of courage.