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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Other Authors: Held, Jacob M., 1977- (Editor), South, James B., 1960- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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