| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 368 pages) |
| Contents |
Flatulence and philosophy : a lot of hot air, or the corruption of youth? / William W. Young III -- The Chewbacca defense : a South Park logic lesson / Robert Arp -- Wikiality, truthiness, and gut thinking : doing philosophy Colbert-style / David Kyle Johnson -- You know, I learned something today : Stan Marsh and the ethics of belief / Henry Jacoby -- Tumbling down the rabbit hole : knowledge, reality, and the pit of skepticism / Matt Lawrence -- Adama's true lie : Earth and the problem of knowledge / Eric J. Silverman -- Mind and body in Zion / Matt Lawrence -- Amnesia, personal identity, and the many lives of Wolverine / Jason Southworth -- Destiny in the wizarding world / Jeremy Pierce -- The Terminator wins : is the extinction of the human race the end of people, or just the beginning? / Greg Littmann -- Cartmanland and the problem of evil / David Kyle Johnson -- Aquinas and Rose on faith and reason / Daniel B. Gallagher -- "I am an instrument of God" : religious belief, atheism, and meaning / Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines -- Plato on Gyges' ring of invisibility : the power of Heroes and the value of virtue / Don Adams --- The virtues of humor : what The office can teach us about Aristotle's ethics / Sean McAleer -- Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker? / Mark D. White -- Means, ends, and the critique of pure superheroes / J. Robert Loftis -- Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx : the immorality of morality / Peter S. Fosl -- When machines get souls : Nietzsche on the cylon uprising / Robert Sharp -- Being-in-The-office : Sartre, the look, and the viewer / Matthew P. Meyer and Greg J. Schneider -- Batman's confrontation with death, angst, and freedom / David M. Hart -- "You care for everybody" : Cameron's ethics of care / Renee Kyle -- Vampire love : the second sex negotiates the twenty-first century / Bonnie Mann -- Killing the Griffins : a murderous exposition of postmodernism / J. Jeremy Wisnewski -- Lost's state of nature / Richard Davies -- Laughter between distraction and awakening : Marxist themes in The office / Michael Bray -- The ethics of torture in 24 : shockingly banal / Dónal P. O'Mathúna -- Mutants and the metaphysics of race / Jeremy Pierce -- Zen and the art of cylon maintenance / James McRae -- The sound of one House clapping : the unmannerly doctor as Zen rhetorician / Jeffrey C. Ruff and Jeremy Barris -- The tao of the bat / Mark D. White -- Beyond Godric's hollow : life after death and the search for meaning / Jonathan L. Walls and Jerry L. Walls -- Selfish, base animals crawling across the earth : House and the meaning of life / Henry Jacoby |
| Summary |
"What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers. With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix, X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp. This unique, thorough introduction to philosophy features essays from the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as newly-commissioned chapters. From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, Introducing Philosophy through Pop Culture makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy and civilization.
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Popular culture -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Popular culture -- Philosophy.
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Popkultur -- Philosophie.
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Philosophie -- Popkultur.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Irwin, William, 1970-
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Johnson, David Kyle
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| LC no. |
2010016191 |
| ISBN |
9781444390971 |
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144439097X |
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9781444334531 |
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1444334530 |
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9786612712302 |
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6612712309 |
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1282712306 |
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9781282712300 |
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