Seinfeld and philosophy : a book about everything and nothing / edited by William Irwin.
An introduction to philosophy through the lens of "Seinfeld" asks, "Is it rational for George to do the opposite?" and "Is there really anything wrong with that?" and other important topics.
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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Chicago :
Open Court,
©2000.
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| Series: | Popular culture and philosophy ;
v. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Act I : The characters, aka "The New York four"
- Jerry and Socrates : the examined life? / William Irwin
- George's failed quest for happiness : an Aristotelian analysis / Daniel Barwick
- Elaine Benes : feminist icon or just one of the boys? / Sarah E. Worth
- Kramer and Kierkegaard : stages on life's way / William Irwin
- Act II : Seinfeld and the philosophers
- Making something out of nothing : Seinfeld, sophistry, and the Tao / Eric Bronson
- Plato or Nietzsche? : Time, essence and eternal recurrence in Seinfeld / Mark T. Conard
- Seinfeld, subjectivity, and Sartre / Jennifer McMahon
- Wittgenstein and Seinfeld on the commonplace / Kelly Dean Jolley
- Act III : Untimely mediations by the water cooler
- The Costanza maneuver : is it rational for George to "do the opposite"? / Jason Holt
- Peterman and the ideological mind : paradoxes of subjectivity / Norah Martin
- The secret of Seinfeld's humor : the significance of the insignificant / Jorge J.E. Garcia
- Act IV : Is there anything wrong with that?
- Seinfeld and the moral life / Robert A. Epperson
- Virtue ethics and TV's Seinfeld / Aeon J. Skoble
- The final episode : is doing nothing something? / Theodore Schick, Jr.