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Author Williams, John Tyerman.

Title Pooh and the philosophers : in which it is shown that all of western philosophy is merely a preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh / John Tyerman Williams ; [with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard].

Publication Info. New York : Dutton Books, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  828.91 WIL    On Holdshelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 M659YW    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents What this book is about -- Pooh and ancient Greece -- Pooh and the seventeenth-century rationalists -- Pooh and the British empiricist tradition -- Later developments of the empiricist tradition -- Pooh and the German philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche -- Pooh and existentialism -- Tailpiece (not Eeyore's).
Summary In this splendidly preposterous volume, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the whole of Western philosophy - from the ancient Greeks to the existentialists of this century - may be found in the works of A. A. Milne. Williams shows how Pooh - referred to here as "the Great Bear" - explains and illuminates the most profound ideas of the great thinkers, from Aristotle and Plato to Sartre and Camus.
Subject Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Characters -- Winnie the Pooh.
Children -- Great Britain -- Books and reading -- History -- 20th century.
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Philosophy.
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character)
Teddy bears in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Added Author Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976.
ISBN 0525455205
Standard No. 9780525455202
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