Pooh and the Philosophers
By: John Tyerman Williams ; with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780749320706
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Teddy bears in literature; Children's stories, English; Philosophy; History and criticism; Philosophy in literature; Characters; English fiction; Winnie the Pooh
Description: In this witty and entertaining excursion through previously uncharted areas of the world of Pooh, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the whole of Western philosophy--from the cosmologists of ancient Greece to existentialism in this century--may be found in Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. Reminding us of Nietzsche's doctrine of Great Recurrence, Williams throws fresh light on Pooh's circular pursuit of the Woozle -- not to mention the Empirical test of a pot of honey, right to the bottom.

This book will confirm, once and for all, what many will have long suspected: that Pooh is a Bear of Enormous Brain.
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: London: Methuen, 1995.
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