Format:
Book
Title:
Pooh and the philosophers : in which it is shown that all of western philosophy is merely a preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh / John Tyerman Williams ; [with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard].
Author:
Williams, John Tyerman.
Call Number:
828 M635zwiL
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Dutton Books, 1996.
Description:
212 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
"In this splendidly preposterous volume, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the whole of Western philosophy - from the ancient Greeks to the existentialists of this century - may be found in the works of A. A. Milne. Williams shows how Pooh - referred to here as "the Great Bear" - explains and illuminates the most profound ideas of the great thinkers, from Aristotle and Plato to Sartre and Camus."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Characters -- Winnie-the-Pooh.
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Philosophy.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character)
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Teddy bears in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Other Author:
Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976.
Contents:
1. What This Book is About -- 2. Pooh and Ancient Greece -- 3. Pooh and the Seventeenth-Century Rationalists -- 4. Pooh and the British Empiricist Tradition -- 5. Later Developments of the Empiricist Tradition -- 6. Pooh and the German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche -- 7. Pooh and Existentialism -- Tailpiece (Not Eeyore's).
ISBN:
0525455205