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.
This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children's book--but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox's lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie's life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. [...] Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder's notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it's occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren't well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
《看不见的性别:提示史前女性的真实角色》内容简介：受卡通片和博物馆的标本展出的影响，我们对旧石器时代的想象通常与这样一幅画面相连：身着毛皮的男性猎手勇敢无畏地向猛犸发起进攻，而胆怯的女人们则满怀恐惧地畏缩在一块巨石后面。事实上，最近的研究表明这一想象跟现实几乎没什么关系。近20年来，由于女性考古学家对其男同事们只关注矛尖等坚硬的人工制品而忽略了更难发现的出自女性之手的考古证据的做法提出了挑战，考古学领域发生了急剧的变化。J．M．阿多瓦西奥(J．M．Adovasio)和奥尔加•索弗(01gaSoffer)是世界上研究篮子、绳子和编织物等易腐烂的人工制品的两位顶级专家。在《看不见的性别》中，作者们描述了一幅有关史前时代的令人激动的崭新画面，他们认为女性发明了所有关键性的东西，包括对寒冷地区的生活十分必要的衣服、用来制作使长距离的水上旅行成为可能的筏子的绳索以及用在公共捕猎中的猎网。更为重要的是，女人在语言和社会生活的发展中——简言之，在我们演进为人的过程中——扮演了主要角色。在这本使人大开眼界的著作里，出现了一个关于史前时代的女人的新故事，故事里引人深思的含义必将影响到我们今天对性别问题的假定。
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Amazon.com Review
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.
From Publishers Weekly
This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children's book--but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox's lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie's life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. [...] Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder's notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it's occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren't well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.