商品簡介
Ackerman (philosophy, College of the Siskiyous) puts a new slant on the works of Lewis Carroll and his alter ego, Charles Dodgson. Using his best known works Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass as well as his Sylvia and Bruno books, Ackerman explores Carroll's philosophy in the light of Dodgson's writing and his known interests. After the scientific austerity of the Enlightenment, the late nineteenth century saw a return to Gnostic themes through the practice of Theosophy. Ackerman sees Wonderland as a symbolic representation of this more mystical Neo-platonic revival. The jumbling of time and mutability of the creatures Alice encounters fit well into this philosophy. Ackerman notes that other have viewed Carroll through the lens of mathematics or Victorian politics. There is no reason why more that one aspect of Dodgson's life should not find their way into his work. However, Ackerman's argument that the fiction is primarily a philosophical/religious search is a compelling one. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Sherry L. Ackerman, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at College of the Siskiyous, in Northern California, USA. As an active scholar with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, she has authored numerous papers and journal articles, as well as the book, Dressage in the Fourth Dimension (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008).
