Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Irwin, William; Gracia, Jorge J. E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aristotle analyzed the popular art of his time: the tragedies and epics. Why should philosophers today not do likewise? Perhaps we can learn something from children's stories by subverting the dominant paradigm of adult authority and admitting with Socrates that we don't know all the answers. Perhaps Batman has ethical lessons to teach that generalize beyond the pages of comic books. Is it better to like Mozart than it is to like Madonna? Kurt Cobain gave voice to the attitude of a generation, singing, 'Here we are, now entertain us.' Is entertainment a bad thing, or could it actually have value-and not just instrumental value?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216300854
• Artikelnr.: 75139002

Autorenporträt

William Irwin is Chair of the Philosophy Department at King's College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches a course on Eastern Philosophy. Irwin originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books with Seinfeld and Philosophy in 1999. The Simpsons and Philosophy, The Matrix and Philosophy, and many other books followed.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Part 2 1. Philosophy Engages Popular Culture: An Introduction
Part 3 Part I: Philosophy and Popular Culture
Chapter 4 2. Philosophy and the Probably Impossible
Chapter 5 3. Philosophy as/and/of Popular Culture
Chapter 6 4. Allusion and Intention in Popular Art
Chapter 7 5. On the Ties That Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and the
Popular Fictions
Chapter 8 6. Liking What's Good: Why Should We?
Chapter 9 7. Popular Art and Entertainment Value
Part 10 Part II: Interpretation and Popular Art Forms
Chapter 11 8. Popular Culture and Spontaneous Order: Or How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Tube
Chapter 12 9. From Horror to Hero: Film Interpretations of Stocker's
Dracula
Chapter 13 10. Socrates at Story Hour: Philosophy as a Subversive Motif in
Children's Literature
Chapter 14 11. Of Batcaves and Clock-Towers: Living Damaged Lives in Gotham
City
Chapter 15 12. "American Pie" and the Self-Critique of Rock 'n' Roll
Chapter 16 13. Photography, Popular Epistemology, Flexible Realism, and
Holistic Pragmatism