
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
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Eric Bronson heads the Philosophy and History Department at Berkeley College in New York City
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Wisdom of Middle-earth
- PART I: THE RING
- 1. The Rings of Tolkien and Plato: Lessons in Power, Choice, and Morality
- 2. The Cracks of Doom: The Threat of Emerging Technologies and Tolkien's Rings of Power
- 3. "My Precious": Tolkien's Fetishized Ring
- PART II: THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS
- 4. Tolkien's Six Keys to Happiness
- 5. The Quests of Sam and Gollum for the Happy Life
- 6. "Farewell to Lorien": The Bounded Joy of Existentialists and Elves
- PART III: GOOD AND EVIL IN MIDDLE-EARTH
- 7. Uberhobbits: Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the Will to Power
- 8. Tolkienn and the Nature of Evil
- 9. Virtue and Vice in The Lord of the Rings
- PART IV: TIME AND MORTALITY
- 10. Choosing to Die: The Gift of Mortality in MIddle-earth
- 11. Tolkien, Modernism, and the Importance of Tradition
- 12. Tolkien's Green Time: Environmental Themes in The Lord of the Rings
- PART V: ENDS AND ENDINGS
- 13. Providence and the Dramatic Unity of The Lord of the Rings
- 14. Talking Trees and Walking Moutains: Buddhist and Taoist Themes in The Lord of the Rings
- 15. Sam and Frodo's Excellent Adventure: Tolkien's Journey Motif
- 16. Happy Endings and Religious Hope: The Lord of the Rings as an Epic Fairy Tale
- The WIsdom of the Philosophers
- The Fellowship of the Book
- The Wizard's Index
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