Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy

Format:

Book

Title:

Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy

Uniform Title:

Sofies verden. English

Author:

Gaarder, Jostein, 1952- author.

ISBN:

9780374530716

9780756990695

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007.

Physical Description:

xi, 518 pages ; 21 cm

Series title(s):

FSG classics.

General Note:

Includes index.

Includes reading group guide.

"Originally published in English in 1994 in the United states by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."--Title page verso

Contents:

Garden of Eden -- Top Hat -- Myths -- Natural Phil Osophers -- Democritus -- Fate -- Socrates -- Athens -- Plato -- Major's Cabin -- Aristotle -- Hellenism -- Postcards -- Two Cultures -- Middle Ages -- Renaissance -- Baroque -- Descartes -- Spinoza -- Locke -- Hume -- Berkeley -- Bjerkely -- Enlightenment -- Kant -- Romanticism -- Hegel -- Kierkegaard -- Marx -- Darwin -- Freud -- Our Own Time -- Garden Party -- Counterpoint -- Big Bang.

Summary:

"One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From this irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through successive letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while also receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined."--Page 4 of cover

Subject(s):

Philosophy -- History -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Norway -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Added Author:

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Stayton Public Library	GAARDER Jostein	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Author Notes

Jostein Gaarder was born in Olso, Norway on August 8, 1952. A former high school philosophy teacher, he now writes numerous novels for children and adults. His best known work is Sophie's World. He has received numerous awards including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994 for Sophie's World, the Buxtehude Bulle in 1997, and the Willy-Brandt-Award in 2004.

(Bowker Author Biography)