Discworld And Philosophy

Author : Nicolas Michaud
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812699238
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discworld and Philosophy written by Nicolas Michaud and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he’s going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn’t have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of fans are addicted to Pratchett’s Discworld, and the interest has only intensified since Pratchett’s recent death and the release of his final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, in September 2015. The philosophical riches of Discworld are inexhaustible, yet the brave explorers of Discworld and Philosophy cover a lot of ground. From discussion of Moist von Lipwig’s con artistry showing the essential con of the financial system, to the examination of everyone’s favorite Discworld character, the murderous luggage, to the lawless Mac Nac Feegles and what they tell us about civil government, to the character Death as he appears in several Discworld novels, Discworld and Philosophy gives us an in-depth treatment of Pratchett’s magical universe. Other chapters look at the power of Discworld’s witches, the moral viewpoint of the golems, how William de Worde’s newspaper illuminates the issue of censorship, how fate and luck interact to shape our lives, and why the more simple and straightforward Discworld characters are so much better at seeing the truth than those with enormous intellects but little common sense.

Author : J. Held
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137360151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Terry Pratchett written by J. Held and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or is curious about, Pratchett's work.

Author : Anne Hiebert Alton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474645
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discworld and the Disciplines written by Anne Hiebert Alton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of word choice; and Derrida and the "monstrous Regiment of Women." The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of critical sources. The essays provide fresh perspectives on Pratchett's work, which has stealthily redefined both fantasy and humor for modern audiences.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1804990183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Gods written by Terry Pratchett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteenth Discworld novel — In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: “Hey, you!” For Brutha, the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him, now, please.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804168954
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Discworld written by Terry Pratchett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science? In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. Interwoven with the Pratchett’s original story are entertaining, enlightening chapters which explain key scientific principles such as the Big Bang theory and the evolution of life on earth, as well as great moments in the history of science.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350244708
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hogfather written by Terry Pratchett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. Superstition makes things work in the Discworld, and undermining it can have consequences. It's just not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say 'Ho Ho Ho...' It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, gothic governess and Death's granddaughter (sort of), doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning. Ever again... Adapted by Terry Pratchett's long-time collaborator Stephen Briggs, this play text version of Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novel Hogfather wittily and faithfully reimagines the story for the stage.

Author : Kristin Noone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674493
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds written by Kristin Noone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous self-examination and creation. This collection of essays uses inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of collaborative writing and shared authorship, steampunk aesthetics, productive modes of "ownership," intertextuality, neomedievalism and colonialism, adaptations into other media, linguistics and rhetorics, and coming of age as an act of free will.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804168997
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Watch written by Terry Pratchett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charles Darwin writes the wrong book and reverses the progress of science, Unseen University’s wizards must once again save Roundworld (Earth, that is) from an apocalyptic end. Ever since a wizardly experiment inadvertently brought about the creation of Roundworld, the wizard scholars of Unseen University have done their best to put things on the right course. In Darwin's Watch they may face their greatest challenge yet: A man called Darwin has written a bestselling book called The Theology of the Species, and his theory of scientific design has been witlessly embraced by Victorian society. As a result, scientific progress has slowed to a crawl, and the wizards must find a way to change history back to the way it should have been. DARWIN'S WATCH EXPLORES THE REVERBERATIONS of major scientific advances on our planet and our culture, the dangers of obscurantism, and the theory of evolution as you have never seen it before. This brilliant addition to Pratchett's beloved Discworld series illustrates with great wit and wisdom how the laws of our universe truly are stranger than fiction.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407047299
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unseen Academicals written by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.' Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic . . . so they're in the mood for trying everything else. To do this, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can; Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie; Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model; and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him . . . And the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go, here we go, here we go! 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times 'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect' Daily Mail Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

Author : Ed McDonald
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399587837
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravencry written by Ed McDonald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second gritty installment of the Raven's Mark series, a bounty hunter faces down the darkest evil. Ryhalt Galharrow is a blackwing--a bounty hunter who seeks out and turns over any man, woman, or child who has been compromised by the immortals known as the Deep Kings. Four years have passed since he helped drive the Deep Kings back across the Misery. But new and darker forces are rising against the republic...