Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords
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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'.