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Saved by Philosophy: A Novel about Philosophy, and the Amor Dei Intellectualis
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ISBN10: 0595429637
ISBN13: 9780595429639
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 23 2007
Pages: 724
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780595429639
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 23 2007
Pages: 724
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hypatia Washington is 22 years old; an unemployed widow, living on welfare, and estranged from her four-year old daughter, she is profoundly alienated from life-when she enrolls in a community college course in Philosophy . thus beginning a profound journey of the mind and heart. She debates skeptics as well as Christian apologists about Evolution, Islam, Womanism, and God, while lecturing about ethics, science, consciousness, and the meaning of human history. She analyzes not only philosophers such as Russell, Rawls, Wittgenstein, and Sartre, but wrestles with such questions as: Which famous philosophers were racists? Was Heidegger a Nazi? Was Wittgenstein homosexual? Did Foucault know he had AIDS? Were any important philosophers women? Or black?
Professor Washington is no ivory tower philosopher: she agonizes over the Rodney King trial and its aftermath; The O.J. Simpson verdict; the death of Tupac Shakur; the Black Athena controversy, and the publication of The Bell Curve-as well as the horrors of September 11, 2001, and its consequences. Join Hypatia, in her pursuit of the Amor Dei Intellectualis (intellectual love of God).
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