Gaarder, Jostein.

Sophie's world : a novel about the history of Philosophy / Jostein Gaarder - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1994 - xi, 518 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

The garden of eden -- The top hat -- The myths -- The natural philosophers -- Democritus -- Fate -- Socrates -- Athens -- Plato -- The major's cabin -- Aristotle -- Hellenism -- The postcards -- Two cultures -- The middle ages -- The renaissance -- The baroque -- Descartes -- Spinoza -- Locke -- Hume -- Berkeley -- Bjerkely -- The enlightenment -- Kant -- Romanticism -- Hegel -- Kierkergaard -- Marx -- Darwin -- Freud -- Our own time -- The garden party -- Counterpoint -- The big bang.

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