The World of Sofia

On the eve of completing fifteen, Sofia Amundsen is surprised by an unusual and strange anonymous ticket found in your mailbox and containing only a simple but intriguing question: "Who are you?". Ah, if she knew! Obviously, it was Sofia Amundsen, but who would this person?For that she had not answered. As it was not enough what happened, more strangers are still the postcards that a Major begins to send in Lebanon, to be delivered to a certain girl named Hilde Knag, his daughter, as well as Sofia, complete fifteen years on the same day .
The problem lies in the fact that Sofia has even idea of who is the girl Hilde, nor where you can find it, much less heard of Major. This, in turn, demonstrates know it very well. The enigma of tickets and postcards that continue to arrive becomes the initial impetus for this astonishing novel in the history of philosophy, which takes place on two levels, in parallel stories. The questions on tickets bring concerns to Sofia, which sees facing issues which had never thought with depth and for which the answers seem harder to find than imagined. In a lively and transparent way, a professor of philosophy begins to Sofia to present the most relevant chapters of history. From pre-socraticos to post-modern, chapter in chapter, lesson after lesson, the reader is faced with the heart, with the fundamental principles guiding the thoughts of the names most expressive of western philosophy.
The lessons are received by Sofia sometimes through letters, sometimes through conversations. The content of these teachings is expressed to make clearer the seizure of the new knowledge which offers front of your eyes. Things that surround the life of Sofia are used to explanar the most diverse and contrasting philosophical assumptions and theories. Thus, a simple and accessible way, but very engaging, the thoughts of Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant. Hegel, Marx, Darwin, Freud, will be exposed and understood, by Sofia, and consequently the reader. The lessons on philosophy show up circumvented by routine from Sofia, which in turn continues to receive postcards from Lebanon.
Now, however, begin to appear personal objects, Hilde Knag, the mysterious girl. Major shows being, at least apparently, in addition to everything that happens to Sofia and her teacher. Gradativamente, it is the existence of some very intimate and mysterious relationship between the content of the classes and some of this anniversary that the major send her daughter. Finally, this reaches the destination. Hilde opens in the present, the world of Sofia begins to be descortinado in a new book begins to be narrated. It is very likely that the reader never consider the Western philosophy in the same way, after reading this book. Classes often tiring of the school philosophy will be on only in memory.