The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West: Popular Culture and Philosophy
by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng
adult nonfiction.
Being a Wonderful Wizard of Oz fan I thought I would enjoy this book. The problem is that this book is a series of serious essays about philosophy as seen in the MGM movie "The Wizard of Oz".
I now realize that I know NOTHING about philosophy. In college I took psychology and world religions and those met my liberal arts requirements so I didn't take a philosophy class. Right away the authors start discussing Plato and Socrates and Langer and Kant. I had no idea what they were talking about.
This is probably a perfectly fine book for a philosophy major or someone who has read a medium to large amount of information about philosophy. That wasn't me. I gave up on the book after browsing a number of essays. The essay about "The Wiz" looked pretty good, but I would have to watch the movie again to remind myself what happened in that film.
