{"id":1592,"date":"2019-03-06T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:32:49","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/9216395\/book\/77931165\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0470558369.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is another book in the Blackwell Philosophy of Pop Culture series.   In this book, <em>Alice&#8217;s adventures in Wonderland<\/em> and <em>Through the Looking-Glass<\/em> are used to discuss ideas in philosophy.  I thought this would be a good book, given that almost everyone is familiar with the subject and many people have read one of the two.  This book may well encourage you to reread them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Lewis Carol was interested in logic and word games, that provides a lot of the material for this book.  The queen, who sees time backwards and who wants to remove people&#8217;s heads, and Humpty Dumpty, who reserves the definition of words he uses to suit his immediate needs, along with many others, provide a wealth of fodder for these philosophers to help educate the reader in different philosophical ideas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many parts of the book were concerned mostly with logic, or the lack thereof.  I found these sections a bit tedious with little new for those who are well-founded in logic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another large portion concerned language and words.  Looking at what a language is, word definitions and context.  Can you readily fix a language with dictionaries and grammars when they are always changing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other philosophers (in the collection), addressed feminism, social contracts and nuclear strategy.  It is clear that Lewis Carol thought a lot on these ideas after seeing what these authors have found among the works.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These subjects make you rethink what you knew about the books.  They are full of some interesting ideas that are lost on the young reader.   The book has a lot of interesting information in small bites that make it easy to read and worth the time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another book in the Blackwell Philosophy of Pop Culture series. In this book, Alice&#8217;s adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are used to discuss ideas in philosophy. I thought this would be a good book, given that almost everyone is familiar with the subject and many people have read one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[125,124],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-blackwell-philosophy-and-pop-culture","tag-william-irwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}