{"product_id":"book-of-the-sphinx-willis-goth-regier-9780803215979","title":"Book of the Sphinx","description":"Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature \"the symbol of the symbolic itself.\" With a wealth of illustrations, \u003ci\u003eBook of the Sphinx\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable--proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Willis Goth Regier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803215975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803215979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.16w x 0.69d","brand":"Willis Goth Regier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926177677567,"sku":"9780803215979","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9621a077-215f-452f-97cb-51513c871107.jpg?v=1681081633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-the-sphinx-willis-goth-regier-9780803215979","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}