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Arrested Development and Philosophy


Arrested Development and Philosophy

They've Made a Huge Mistake
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Band 18 1. Aufl.

von: William Irwin, Kristopher G. Phillips, J. Jeremy Wisnewski

15,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 08.11.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781118146262
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 272

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<b>ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT <i>AND PHILOSOPHY</i></b> <p><b>Is George Michael’s crush on his cousin unnatural? <BR>Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide her job?<BR>Is Gob better off living his life in bad faith?<BR>What inferences can we draw from Tobias’s double-entendres?<BR>Are the pictures <i>really</i> of bunkers or balls?</b> <p>The Bluth family’s faults, foibles, and character flaws are so excruciatingly familiar that we squirm in painful recognition of the outrageous impulses that we all have but would never act on. The Bluths seem utterly unaware of the gaping distance between their behavior and accepted social norms. Lurking behind this craziness are large moral and philosophical issues to be explored. From Plato to Aristotle, from Descartes to Marx, <i>Arrested Development and Philosophy</i> draws from great philosophical minds to shed new light on the show’s key questions and captivating themes, including the nature of self-knowledge and happiness, business ethics and capitalist alienation, social class, the role of error in character development, and much more.
<b>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</b>: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of the Bluth Company ix <p><b>INTRODUCTION</b> 1<br /> <i>Kristopher Phillips</i></p> <p><b>PART ONE FAMILY FIRST</b></p> <p>1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7<br /> <i>Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman</i></p> <p>2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor 23<br /> <i>Deborah R. Barnbaum</i></p> <p>3 Freudian Arrested Development 33<br /> <i>Tim Jung</i></p> <p>4 Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46<br /> <i>Daniel P. Malloy</i></p> <p><b>PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL</b></p> <p>5 Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution 61<br /> <i>Jeff Ewing</i></p> <p>6 Family First: How <i>Not</i> to Run a Business 73<br /> <i>Brett Gaul</i></p> <p>7 Bourgeois Bluths: <i>Arrested Development</i> and Class Status 85<br /> <i>Rachel McKinney</i></p> <p><b>PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES</b></p> <p>8 What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in <i>Arrested Development</i> 99<br /> <i>J. Jeremy Wisnewski</i></p> <p>9 "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in <i>Arrested Development</i> 111<br /> <i>M. E. Verrochi</i></p> <p>10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and <i>Arrested Development</i> 123<br /> <i>Darci Doll</i></p> <p>11 I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in <i>Arrested Development</i> 136<br /> <i>Kristopher Phillips</i></p> <p><b>PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY</b></p> <p>12 You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft 151<br /> <i>Michael Cholbi</i></p> <p>13 Is Justified True <i>Bluth</i> Belief Knowledge? 162<br /> <i>Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips</i></p> <p>14 Bunkers and Balls: <i>Arrested Development,</i> Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation 172<br /> <i>Michael Da Silva</i></p> <p><b>PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED</b></p> <p>15 No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason 185<br /> <i>Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco</i></p> <p>16 "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development 197<br /> <i>Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew Holmes</i></p> <p>17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210<br /> <i>Erin Fay and Willie Young</i></p> <p><b>PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . .</b></p> <p>18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: <i>Arrested Development,</i> Narrative, and How We Find Meaning 227<br /> <i>Tyler Shores</i></p> <p><b>CONTRIBUTORS:</b> Banana Stand Employee Roster 241</p> <p><b>INDEX:</b> Banana Stand Inventory 247</p>
<p><b> KRISTOPHER G. PHILLIPS</b> is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.</p> <p><b> J. JEREMY WISNEWSKI</b> is an associate professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. He is the editor of <i>Family Guy and Philosophy, The Office and Philosophy</i>, and <i>30 Rock and Philosophy</i>, and coeditor of <i>X-Men and Philosophy</i> and <i>Twilight and Philosophy</i>. <p><b>WILLIAM IRWIN</b> is a professor of philosophy at King’s College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling <i>The Simpsons and Philosophy</i> and has overseen recent titles including <i>House and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy,</i> and <i>Mad Men and Philosophy.</i> <p><b>To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com</b>
<p><b>Is George Michael’s crush on his cousin unnatural? <BR>Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide her job?<BR>Is Gob better off living his life in bad faith?<BR>What inferences can we draw from Tobias’s double-entendres?<BR>Are the pictures <i>really</i> of bunkers or balls?</b></p> <p>The Bluth family’s faults, foibles, and character flaws are so excruciatingly familiar that we squirm in painful recognition of the outrageous impulses that we all have but would never act on. The Bluths seem utterly unaware of the gaping distance between their behavior and accepted social norms. Lurking behind this craziness are large moral and philosophical issues to be explored. From Plato to Aristotle, from Descartes to Marx, <i>Arrested Development and Philosophy</i> draws from great philosophical minds to shed new light on the show’s key questions and captivating themes, including the nature of self-knowledge and happiness, business ethics and capitalist alienation, social class, the role of error in character development, and much more.

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