The Philosopher's Alice

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>How did an</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>innocent children's tale become an underground adult classic? Peter Heath lets the Cheshire cat out of the bag in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Philosopher's Alice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> his guide to Lewis Carroll's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Alice </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>books. In doing so he proves that beneath an exterior of nonsense and absurdity the work's central concern is with the bounds of sense and the limitations of reason. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Containing the full text of both </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Alice in Wonderland</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Through the Looking-Glass</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> along with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Philosopher's Alice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> takes the reader on a journey through the thickets of philosophical blunders logical fallacies conceptual confusions and linguistic breakdowns that decorate the landscape of Alice's world. Peter Heath's delightful commentary brings Carroll's classic works into conversation with modern philosophy and is full of surprising insights so that even the most dedicated lover of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Alice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> books will see them in a new light. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This Angelico Press edition of a work long out of print also features a new foreword by Mark Burstein President Emeritus of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America.</span></p>