The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust

Book Overview

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest of the contributors to this fascinating volume, who use it to probe the philosophical issues that inform them. Could a golden compass, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812696719
• ISBN13: 9780812696714
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.0"