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SAVED BY PHILOSOPHY: A Novel about Philosophy, and the Amor Dei Intellectualis - Couverture souple

Propp, Steven

 
9780595429639: SAVED BY PHILOSOPHY: A Novel about Philosophy, and the Amor Dei Intellectualis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595429637 ISBN 13 : 9780595429639
Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

Hypatia Washington is 22 years old; an unemployed widow, living on welfare, and estranged from her four-year old daughter, she is profoundly alienated from life-when she enrolls in a community college course in Philosophy thus beginning a profound journey of the mind and heart. She debates skeptics as well as Christian apologists about Evolution, Islam, Womanism, and God, while lecturing about ethics, science, consciousness, and the meaning of human history. She analyzes not only philosophers such as Russell, Rawls, Wittgenstein, and Sartre, but wrestles with such questions as: Which famous philosophers were racists? Was Heidegger a Nazi? Was Wittgenstein homosexual? Did Foucault know he had AIDS? Were any important philosophers women? Or black? Professor Washington is no "ivory tower" philosopher: she agonizes over the Rodney King trial and its aftermath; The O.J. Simpson verdict; the death of Tupac Shakur; the "Black Athena" controversy, and the publication of The Bell Curve-as well as the horrors of September 11, 2001, and its consequences. Join Hypatia, in her pursuit of the Amor Dei Intellectualis ("intellectual love of God").

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hypatia Washington is 22 years old; an unemployed widow, living on welfare, and estranged from her four-year old daughter, she is profoundly alienated from life-when she enrolls in a community college course in Philosophy thus beginning a profound journey of the mind and heart. She debates skeptics as well as Christian apologists about Evolution, Islam, Womanism, and God, while lecturing about ethics, science, consciousness, and the meaning of human history. She analyzes not only philosophers such as Russell, Rawls, Wittgenstein, and Sartre, but wrestles with such questions as: Which famous philosophers were racists? Was Heidegger a Nazi? Was Wittgenstein homosexual? Did Foucault know he had AIDS? Were any important philosophers women? Or black? Professor Washington is no "ivory tower" philosopher: she agonizes over the Rodney King trial and its aftermath; The O.J. Simpson verdict; the death of Tupac Shakur; the "Black Athena" controversy, and the publication of The Bell Curve-as well as the horrors of September 11, 2001, and its consequences. Join Hypatia, in her pursuit of the Amor Dei Intellectualis ("intellectual love of God").

Biographie de l'auteur

Steve Propp lives and works in downtown Sacramento, California, and graduated from CSU Sacramento. He has previously written the nonfiction book Inquiries: Philosophical (2002), and the philosophical novels A Multicultural Christmas (2005), Josué: Prisoner At Shalem (2005), Utopia On the 6th Floor (2004), Beyond Heaven and Earth (2003), Tattered Pilgrims (2001), and Work, Death, & Taxes (2000). He welcomes E-mail from readers at: stevenhpropp@hotmail.com.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595429637
ISBN 13 
9780595429639
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
722
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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