The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World

An Ocean of Stories
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-60375-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This book analyzes the philosophical dimensions of fairy tales from cultures all around the world. Though there is a robust literature that analyzes fairy tales from sociological and historical perspectives and psychology has also focused on mining these stories for insights, this book is unique in its focus on fairy tales as philosophical texts. Bringing together scholars from a truly global range of philosophical and literary traditions, this book shows that fairy tales encapsulate the human dilemma of living in the world, trying to make meaning, and charting a course through good and evil. The book's contributors study fairy tales from East Africa, Australia, Jewish Eastern Europe, Iran, Korea, Turkey, Indigenous North America, and beyond. Ending with a section on Philosophy for Children, this book will also be of interest to scholars and practitioners in this subfield, in addition to scholars of philosophy and popular culture and philosophy of literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turgeon, Wendy C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: the fairy tale and philosophy.- 2 : From Rags to Riches Reconsidered:  Cynical musings about good fortunes and happily ever afters in Russian fairy tales.- 3: Euthanasia & Life Extension in - 4:  Exploring philosophical concepts  with a Turkish fairy tale.- 5: Come seek us where our voices sound: Encountering the Mermaid in Harry Potter.- 6: The Golem: A Jewish Fairy Tale of Language, Identity, and Responsibility.- 7: Community of Philosophical Inquiry Visits Derrida: In defense of "Abnormality" in the Iranian Fairy Tale, “Bald Black Mam”.- 8: “Et max laryngitis”; Silencing the Siren in - 9: Absence, Violence, and Desire: Derrida, Giraud, and Bluebeard’s Justice.- 10: The Question of Time, or a Quest for Virtues in Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Fairy Tales.- 11: Baba Yaga and Vasilia the Brave: a feminist revisiting.- 12: North American Indigenous Fairy tales/myths.- 13: “If I become your wife, what will you beat me with, when we argue?”: A philosophical (Foucauldian) reading of the feminine body in an Iranian tale, - 14: The Philosophical Potential of Folk Tales for Children: An Exploration of "Who is the Smartest?" from Karditsa, Greece.- 15: The Brother and the Sister who became the Sun and the Moon.- 16: Sir Isumbras-a medieval fairy tale.- 17: A Fairy and A Woodcutter.

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy C. Turgeon teaches philosophy at St. Joseph’s University in New York and has published extensively on philosophy of childhood, philosophy with children, and more recently, a book entitled with Rowman and Littlefield in 2020. She has served on boards of PLATO, ICPIC, and NAACI, all international organizations dedicated to philosophy in education.