Sophie's world :

By: Gaarder, Jostein, 1952-Contributor(s): Møller, PauletteMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Series: FSG classicsPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xi, 518 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374530716; 0374530718Uniform titles: Sofies verden. English. Subject(s): Philosophy -- History -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Norway -- Fiction | Norway -- FictionGenre/Form: Didactic fiction. | Epistolary fiction. | Fiction. DDC classification: F .G111
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.
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Includes index.

Includes Reading group guide.

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.

"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.