Wisdom of Harry Potter What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us about Moral Choices

Name: Wisdom of Harry Potter What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us about Moral Choices
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ISBN: 9781591021339

ISBN-10: 1591021332

ISBN-13: 9781591021339

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edmund M. Kern

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

associate professor of history at Lawrence University



Acknowledgments


Preface



Imaginatively Updating an Old-Fashioned Virtue


A Welcome Surprise and a Perilous Burden


Popularity and Criticism


What the Books Have to Offer


Imagination at Play


Imagination at Work


The Kids in Your Life



Plot Threads and Moral Fibers


Little Whinging


The Sorcerer's Stone


Flight from Death


The Chamber of Secrets


House-Elves and Mudbloods


The Prisoner of Azkaban


A Law unto Himself


The Goblet of Fire


That's Not How It's Supposed to Work



Harry Potter's Morality on Display: A Primer on Stoic Virtue


Frustration


Ambiguity


Hard Questions and Adult Mentoring


Constancy in the Face of Evil, and Other Virtues


Growing Up, Growing Pains



Greed, Conventionality, Demonic Threat


Kids among the Critics


A Culture of Consumerism


Familiar (and Unexamined) Assumptions


The Big Deal about Witchcraft


Pluralism



Imagination, History, Legend, and Myth


The Familiar and the Fantastic


The Uses of History, Legend, and Myth


Social Realism


The Problem of Evil


Stoicism and Religion


Being Enchanted


Afterword: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


Notes


Bibliography


Index