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Grendel

by John Gardner

Study Guides

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

• Alfred North Whitehead (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nothing

• Epistemological Problems of Perception (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Jean-Paul Sartre (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Niccolò Machiavelli (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy 

• Moral Skepticism

• Problem of other minds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Process Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Solipsism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Søren Kierkegaard (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Martin Buber (Stanford Encyclopoedia of Philosophy)
 

• "The Consciousness of Consciousness" in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

• Character list

• Major Themes

• The Hidden Organization of Grendel

• "The Mental Traveller" by William Blake

• "General Prologue" in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

• selection from Preface to Plato by Erick Havelock

• Opening selection from Beowulf (Seamus Heany translation, 2000)