Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords

Overview:

  • Title: Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords
  • Author: Henry Jacoby
  • Year: 2012
  • ISBN-10: 9781118161999
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • Price: $17.95
  • Pages: xv+302
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Game of Thrones and Philosophy
  • Notes: 1st printing per number line. No other printing dates beyond (c) 2012. Date from Amazon.com as of 2011-12-20. Also priced $21.95 in Canada. Cover Design: Paul McCarthy Cover Image: (c) Istockphoto The essays are divided into different sections: - "You Win or You Die" - "The Things I Do for Love" - "Winter is Coming" - "The Man Who Passes the Sentence Should Swing the Sword" - "Stick Them With the Pointy End" There is introductory material - 'Acknowledgments: How I Was Spared from Having to Take the Black' on p. xv, 'A Raven from House Wiley: Editor's Note on Spoilers' on p. xiii and 'Index: From the Archives at Oldtown' on pp. 287-302 which are left out of the Contents. The essay on the contributing authors ('Contributors: The Learned Lords and Ladies from Beyond the Seven Kingdoms') may contain fictitious material. Italics are used in the following essays: 'Magic, Science, and Metaphysics in A Game of Thrones', 'Dany's Encounter with the Wild: Cultural Relativism in A Game of Thrones' and 'Fate, Freedom, and Authenticity in A Game of Thrones'.