The Lord of the rings and philosophy : one book to rule them all / edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson.
2003
823.912 T649Yb 2003
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Title
The Lord of the rings and philosophy : one book to rule them all / edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson.
ISBN
0812695453 (pbk.)
9780812695458 (pbk.)
9780812695458 (pbk.)
Imprint
Chicago : Open Court ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2003.
Language
English
Description
xi, 240 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
823.912 T649Yb 2003
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52602754
(OCoLC)52602754
(OCoLC)52602754
Summary
Can power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt? Does technology destroy the truly human? Is beer essential to the good life? The Lord of the Rings raises many such searching questions, and this book attempts some answers. Divided into five sections concerned with power and the Ring, the quest for happiness, good and evil in Middle-earth, time and mortality, and the relevance of fairy tales, The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy mines Tolkien's fantasy worlds for wisdom in areas including the menace of technology, addiction and fetishism, the vitality of tradition, the environmental implications of Tolkien's thought, Middle-earth's relationship to Buddhism and Taoism, and more.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. The ring. The rings of Tolkien and Plato : lessons in power, choice, and morality / Eric Katz
The cracks of doom : the threat of emerging technologies and Tolkien's rings of power / Theodore Schick
"My precious" : Tolkien's fetishized ring / Alison Milbank
pt. 2. The quest for happiness. Tolkien's six keys to happiness / Gregory Bassham
The quests of Sam and Gollum for the happy life / Jorge J.E. Gracia
"Farewell to Lórien" : the bounded joy of existentialists and elves / Eric Bronson
pt. 3. Good and evil in Middle-earth. Überhobbits : Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the will to power / Douglas K. Blount
Tolkien and the nature of evil / Scott A. Davison
Virtue and vice in The Lord of the rings / Aeon J. Skoble
pt. 4. Time and mortality. Choosing to die : the gift of mortality in Middle-earth / Bill Davis
Tolkien, modernism, and the importance of tradition / Joe Kraus
Tolkien's green time : environmental themes in The Lord of the rings / Andrew Light
pt. 5. Ends and endings. Providence and the dramatic unity of The Lord of the rings / Thomas Hibbs
Talking trees and walking mountains : Buddhist and Taoist themes in The Lord of the rings / Jennifer L. McMahan and B. Steve Csaki
Sam and Frodo's excellent adventure : Tolkien's journey motif / J. Lenore Wright
Happy endings and religious hope : The Lord of the rings as an epic fairy tale / John J. Davenport.
The cracks of doom : the threat of emerging technologies and Tolkien's rings of power / Theodore Schick
"My precious" : Tolkien's fetishized ring / Alison Milbank
pt. 2. The quest for happiness. Tolkien's six keys to happiness / Gregory Bassham
The quests of Sam and Gollum for the happy life / Jorge J.E. Gracia
"Farewell to Lórien" : the bounded joy of existentialists and elves / Eric Bronson
pt. 3. Good and evil in Middle-earth. Überhobbits : Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the will to power / Douglas K. Blount
Tolkien and the nature of evil / Scott A. Davison
Virtue and vice in The Lord of the rings / Aeon J. Skoble
pt. 4. Time and mortality. Choosing to die : the gift of mortality in Middle-earth / Bill Davis
Tolkien, modernism, and the importance of tradition / Joe Kraus
Tolkien's green time : environmental themes in The Lord of the rings / Andrew Light
pt. 5. Ends and endings. Providence and the dramatic unity of The Lord of the rings / Thomas Hibbs
Talking trees and walking mountains : Buddhist and Taoist themes in The Lord of the rings / Jennifer L. McMahan and B. Steve Csaki
Sam and Frodo's excellent adventure : Tolkien's journey motif / J. Lenore Wright
Happy endings and religious hope : The Lord of the rings as an epic fairy tale / John J. Davenport.
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Series
Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 5
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