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Small Moral Works-Philosophical stories that were greatly enjoyed even by Arthur Schopenhauer. Kierkegaard, Søren: 1813-1855 Diary of a Seducer-A novel in the highly literary philosophical work Either/Or. Turgenev, Ivan: 1818-1883 Fathers and Sons; Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 1821-1881 Existentialism. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov ...
Category:Novels about philosophers categorizes biographical novels about philosophers. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development ...
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Percy was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama, the first of three boys to LeRoy Pratt Percy and Martha Susan Phinizy. [3] His father's Mississippi Protestant family included his great-uncle LeRoy Percy, a US senator, and LeRoy Pope Walker, a pro-slavery secessionist in Antebellum America and the first Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War. [4]
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...
The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961. [2] It won the U.S. National Book Award. [3] Time included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". [4]
The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the memoir of a mathematician named Peter Hogarth, who becomes involved in a Pentagon-directed project (code-named "His Master's Voice", or HMV for short [2]) somewhere in the Nevada desert, where scientists are working to decode what seems to be a message from outer space (specifically, a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation).