Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House

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William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson
John Wiley & Sons, 18 de nov. de 2011 - 384 páginas
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
  • Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms
  • From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself
  • Supplementary website available with teaching guides, sample materials and links to further resources at www.pop-philosophy.org
 

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Cover
The Chewbacca Defense A South Park
Wikiality Truthiness and Gut Thinking
ll Epistemology
Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole
Adamas True Lie Earth and the Problem
Introduction
Amnesia Personal Identity and the Many
Metallica Nietzsche and Marx
BeinginThe Office Sartre the Look
You Care for Everybody Cameron 5
Killing the Griffins A Murderous
Laughter Between Distraction
The Ethics of Torture in 24 Shockingly
Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race
Introduction

Destiny in the Wizarding World
The Terminator Wins Is the Extinction
Philosophy of Religion
Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason
I Am an Instrument of God Religious
Ethics
The Virtues of Humor What The Office
Why Doesnt Batman Kill the Joker?
Means Ends and the Critique of Pure
hlln Tr iinl
and Interdependent Arising
The Sound of One House Clapping
The Tao of the
Introduction
Selfish Base Animals Crawling Across
Glossary
Can Teach Us About Aristotles Ethics
Index
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Sobre o autor (2011)

William Irwin is professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at King’s College in Pennsylvania. In addition to publishing in leading scholarly journals such as Philosophy and Literature and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Irwin originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books with Seinfeld and Philosophy in 1999. Irwin has also co-edited The Simpsons and Philosophy and edited The Matrix and Philosophy and Metallica and Philosophy. He is currently the General Editor of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series.

David Kyle Johnson is assistant professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania. In addition to his scholarly work on philosophy of religion, Johnson has edited Heroes and Philosophy and is also a contributor to the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, having written chapters on South Park, Family Guy, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and Batman. Johnson hosts a podcast on Pop Culture and Philosophy at www.philosophyandpopculture.com.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloIntroducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House
EditoresWilliam Irwin, David Kyle Johnson
EditoraJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444390988, 9781444390988
Num. págs.384 páginas
  
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