The Dead Philosophers' Cafe an Exchange of Letters for Children and Adults
- List Price: $19.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
These are some of Nora's questions which prompted her correspondence with Vittorio Hosle, a philosopher by profession, who invents a wonderful philosophical fantasy. Taking the film The Dead Poet's Society as his inspiration, he creates a place where the great philosophers of antiquity and their modern successors can all meet. They gather in the "Cafe of the Dead but Ever Young Philosophers" and discuss Nora's letters -- Parmenides and Socrates, Descartes and Hobbes (whom Nora doesn't like at all), 'Mac' (Machiavelli) and Kant, Nora's "patron philosopher" Giambattista Vico and Hans Jonas, and many others. The sparks fly from time to time, as the great thinkers squabble quite frequently -- no wonder, since conflicting arguments from the entire history of philosophy collide with each other head-on.
Nora's letters are intelligent, never precocious, and always imaginative. Vittorio Hosle provides answers which are entertaining but still critical, and he is clearly concerned about not setting his expectations ofthe child ton low. In his afterword on children's philosophy and philosophy with children, he sketches what role philosophy could play in raising children. The correspondence with Nora, an authentic exchange of letters between January 1994 and January 1996, is a lovely document of a philosophical friendship between an adult and a child.
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