The Philosopher's Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

by Peter Laughlan Heath, Lewis Carroll (Author)

Alice's Adventures (Collections and Selections — Annotated Edition)

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Peter Heath's insightful annotations prove that the central concern of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' is with the bounds of sense and the limitation of reason. Heath takes the reader on a fascinating walk through the thickets of philosophical blunders, logical fallacies, conceptual confusions and linguistic breakthroughs that decorate the landscape of Alice's world. As a result, Lewis Carroll is elevated to a place alongside such eminent philosophers as show more Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein. show less

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This is a pretty technical edition - it's fun if you're interested in the basic questions of Western philosophy. In my opinion, much better than the Gardner "Annotated Alice", which explains the obvious far too often.

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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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This is a much annotated edition of the Alice books. It's definitely a different work than "The Annotated Alice" though.

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Tween
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823.8Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1837-1899
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PR4611 .A73 .H4Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900

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