Books by Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy (Volume 1: Socrates to Galileo)
by Jostein Gaarder, Nicoby (illustrator) & Vincent Zabus
A graphic novel based on Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World. It's updated (at the beginning Sophie and a friend are planning to meet at a climate protest) but also a bit more accessible than the original, which was a bestseller in the 1990s. While the original Sophie's World was written for teenagers, it's actually a little hard to understand unless you already know a bit about philosophy. This version, adapted by Belgian comics writer Vincent Zabus, presumes no knowledge and so is a good way for complete beginners to start out on philosophy.
“Sophie’s World is a wonderful introduction to ideas amongst these philosophers about the nature of reality, about what we can hope to know about the nature of epistemology, the nature of ontology, things in themselves, metaphysics. It’s a really, really nice way to get to grips with what some of these great philosophers were saying about the world.” Read more...
The best books on Quantum Physics and Reality
Jim Baggott, Science Writer
Interviews where books by Jostein Gaarder were recommended
The best books on Quantum Physics and Reality, recommended by Jim Baggott
Quantum physics is deeply confusing and its relation to reality the cause of heated debate among physicists since its discovery. Here, science writer Jim Baggott—who has spent more than three decades thinking about quantum mechanics and written a number of books about it—recommends books for better understanding what it’s about, and explains why how physicists approach it is so crucial to science’s credibility.
