Document Type

Curriculum Materials

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

My Name is Myshkin is a philosophical novel written with children ages approximately 10-14 in mind. The book offers a fantasy adventure plot line interweaving narrative themes of ecology, mythology, psychology, spirituality and social justice, which interplay with its more purely philosophical material. Myshkin, the ten-year old narrator of the story, engages in numerous conversations with three school friends. A few of the many questions they take up are: whether one “is” one’s body, how we can tell what is real, animals and humans, youth and age, what is alive, the origins of evil, superstition and belief, whether there is a true “objective” account of anything, whether one can fully know or be known by another person, the suffering and injustice in the world, and ones responsibility for it.

Book Publisher

LIT Verlag

Journal ISSN / Book ISBN

978-3643902887

Published Citation

Kennedy, David (2012) My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel for Children. Münster, Germany: LIT Verlag.

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