The Hobbit and philosophy : for when you've lost your dwarves, your wizard, and your way / edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Hoboken : Wiley, 2012.
Description
1 online resource

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Series
  • Blackwell philosophy and popculture series [More in this series]
  • The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Summary note
A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic?just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyThe Hobbit and Philosophy is a must read for longtime Tolkien fans as well as those discovering Bilbo Baggins and his adventures "there and back again" for the first time.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Contents
  • The adventurous Hobbit / Gregory Bassham
  • "The road goes ever on and on": a Hobbit's Tao / Michael C. Brannigan
  • Big hairy feet: a Hobbit's guide to enlightenment / Eric Bronson
  • Bilbo Baggins: the cosmopolitan Hobbit / Dennis Knepp
  • The glory of Bilbo Baggins / Charles Taliaferro and Craig Lindahl-Urben
  • Pride and humility in The Hobbit / Laura Garcia
  • "My precious": Tolkien on the perils of possessiveness / Anna Minore and Gregory Bassham
  • Tolkien's just war / David Kyle Johnson
  • "Pretty fair nonsense": art and beauty in The Hobbit / Philip Tallon
  • Hobbitus Ludens: why Hobbits like to play and why we should, too / David L. O'Hara
  • "The lord of magic and machines": Tolkien on magic and technology / W. Christopher Stewart
  • Inside The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins and the paradox of fiction / Amy Kind
  • Philosophy in the dark: The Hobbit and hermeneutics / Tom Grimwood
  • Some Hobbits have all the luck / Randall M. Jensen
  • The consolation of Bilbo: providence and free will in Middle-Earth / Grant Sterling
  • Out of the frying pan: courage and decision making in Wilderland / Jamie Carlin Watson
  • There and back again: a song of innocence and experience / Joe Kraus.
ISBN
  • 9781118233894 ((epub))
  • 1118233891 ((epub))
  • 9781118220191 ((pdf))
  • 1118220196 ((pdf))
  • 9781118258552 ((mobi))
  • 111825855X ((mobi))
LCCN
2012010346
OCLC
779740482
Other standard number
  • 40021454086
RCP
H - S
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