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The Hobbit and philosophy : for when you've lost your dwarves, your wizard, and your way
- Title
- The Hobbit and philosophy : for when you've lost your dwarves, your wizard, and your way / edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson.
- Publication
- Hoboken : Wiley, c2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 262 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-7928
- ISBN
- 9780470405147 (pbk.)
- 0470405147 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012007299
- OCLC
- 779740279
- Title
- The Hobbit and philosophy : for when you've lost your dwarves, your wizard, and your way / edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson.
- Imprint
- Hoboken : Wiley, c2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture seriesBlackwell philosophy and popculture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bassham, Gregory, 1959- editor.Bronson, Eric, 1971- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7928