Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) Export

@book{citeulike:1686410, abstract = {{Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.} {<div>A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, <i>Sophie\&\#8217;s World </i>has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.<br><br>One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: \&\#8220;Who are you?\&\#8221; and \&\#8220;Where does the world come from?\&\#8221; From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning\&\#8212;but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.</div>}}, author = {Gaarder, Jostein}, citeulike-article-id = {1686410}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&amp;path=ASIN/0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&amp;path=ASIN/0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374530718/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0374530718}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0374530718&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0374530718}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0374530718}, keywords = {history, philosophy}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2007-09-23 05:52:03}, priority = {0}, publisher = {{Farrar, Straus and Giroux}}, title = {Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics)}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0374530718}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1686410 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1686410 N2 - {Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined.} {<div>A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, <i>Sophie&#8217;s World </i>has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.<br><br>One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; and &#8220;Where does the world come from?&#8221; From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning&#8212;but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.</div>} SN - 0374530718 TI - Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) PB - {Farrar, Straus and Giroux} KW - history KW - philosophy AU - Gaarder, Jostein PY - 2007/03/20/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0374530718 ER -