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Informationen zum Autor RICHARD BRIAN DAVIS is an associate professor of philosophy at Tyndale University College and the coeditor of 24 and Philosophy . WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy , House and Philosophy , and Watchmen and Philosophy . Klappentext Should the Cheshire Cat's grin make us reconsider the nature of reality? Can Humpty Dumpty make words mean whatever he says they mean? Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole? Is Alice a feminist icon? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as a blue caterpillar who smokes a hookah, a cat whose grin remains after its head has faded away, and a White Queen who lives backward and remembers forward? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books and reveals a world rich with philosophical life lessons. Tapping into some of the greatest philosophical minds that ever lived-Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Nietzsche-Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy explores life's ultimate questions through the eyes of perhaps the most endearing heroine in all of literature. To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com Zusammenfassung The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland releasing in March 2010 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is treasured by people of all ages who have followed young Alice on her trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantasy world filled with strange and whimsical characters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments: "It's My Own Invention"- Yeah, Right! ix Introduction: You're Late for a Very Important Date 1 Part One "Wake Up, Alice Dear" 1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7 Megan S. Lloyd 2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and the SpiceGirls? 19 Mark D. White 3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33 Ron Hirschbein 4 "You're Nothing but a Pack of Cards!": Alice Doesn't Have a Social Contract 47 Dennis Knepp Part Two "That's Logic" 5 "Six Impossible Things before Breakfast" 61 George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald 6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79 David S. Brown 7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93 Brendan Shea 8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107 Daniel Whiting Part Three "We're All Mad Here" 9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125 Robert Arp 10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137 Scott F. Parker 11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice's Adventure 153 Rick Mayock 12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167 Mark W. Westmoreland Part Four "Who in the World Am I?" 13 Serious Nonsense 183 Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson 14 "Memory and Muchness": Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197 Tyler Shores Contributors: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213 Index: "Down, Down, Down": What You Will Find at the Bottom 219 ...
