Le Monde of Sophie (original title: Sofies verden ) is a philosophical novel published in 1991 writes by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder.

The novel wants to be an introduction to philosophy, its various movements and its evolution.

Summary

Sophie Amundsen is a young Norwegian teenager approaching the 15 years living with her mother and her pets. One day, it receives a mysterious letter pushing it to put the following existential questions: “Which are you? ” then “From which the world comes? ”. It is found catapulted, a little in spite of it, in a philosophical world including/understanding the courses of philosophy given by enigmatic Alberto Knox and the strange demonstrations of a certain Albert Knag.

Synopsis

1. the Garden of Eden
2. the top hat
3. the Myth S
4. philosophers of nature
5. Démocrite
6. the Destiny
7. Socrate
8. Athens
9. Plato
10. the country cottage of the major
11. Aristote
12. the Hellénisme
13. the postcards
14. Two cultures
15. the the Middle Ages
16. the Rebirth
17. the Baroque
18. Descartes
19. Spinoza
20. Locke
21. Hume
22. Berkeley
23. Bjerkely
24. the Age of Enlightenment
25. Kant
26. the Romanticism
27. Hegel
28. Kierkegaard
29. Marx
30. Darwin
31. Freud
32. the contemporary time
33. reception in the open air
34. Counterpoint
35. the Big bang