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Books

Pop Culture ‘and Philosophy’ Books

John Shelton Lawrence reviews the genre of ‘and philosophy’ books.

Tales about goddesses and gods, villains and tricksters permeate the world’s civilizations. Wherever the philosophical feel tempted to reframe the common ways of understanding things, they make choices about how to deal with such stories. This is reflected in the origins of Western philosophy. Historians of ideas believe that Greek philosophy and science began to supersede mythology when thinkers like Thales shifted attention to observable patterns of process and material stuffs such as water. Those pioneers were displacing narratives about the gods and their passionate interventions.

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