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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bergman, Gregory, 1979-     Subjects     Philosophy -- Miscellanea.     Television programs -- Miscellanea.     Values on television.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bergman, Gregory, 1979-       by title:      I watch, therefore I...         MARC Display

I watch, therefore I am : from Socrates to Sartre, the great mysteries of life as explained through Howdy Doody, Marcia Brady, Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and other TV icons / Gregory Bergman and Peter Archer. by Bergman, Gregory, 1979- Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, c2011. Subjects Philosophy -- Miscellanea.   Television programs -- Miscellanea.   Values on television. ISBN:  9781440512414 (pbk.) : 1440512418 (pbk.) Description:  x, 245 p. ; 19 cm. Contents:  What's the world made of? Donuts! and Beer! -- Protagoras, Gorgias, Captain Kirk, and Denny Crane -- Socrates : The Sergeant Schultz of Ancient Greece -- Plato is the new American Idol -- Aristotle loves Lucy -- Charlie Harper's Non-Epicurean lifestyle -- St. Augustine's Highway to Heaven -- Scully shaves Mulder with Ockham's Razor -- Larry Hagman dreams of Descartes -- Locke versus Hobbes, or The Brady Bunch takes on Survivor -- Can or can't Kant like vampires? -- Reading Hegel in Outer Space -- John Stuart Mill and the Utilitarian Heroism of Dexter Morgan -- Karl Marx and Adam Smith, meet Alex P. Keaton -- Dr. Gregory House and the Nietzschean Superman -- Don Draper, George Costanza and the non-meaning of life -- Jersey Shore's 'The Situation': The Randian Ideal man with a tan? -- Earl Hickey meets Karma in My name is Earl -- Lost but not least. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Leave it to the boob tube to explain the meaning of existence. Let Gilligan's Island teach you about situational ethics. Learn about epistemology from The Brady Bunch. Explore Aristotle's Poetics by watching 24. Television has grappled with a wide range of philosophical conundrums. According to the networks, it's the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe. So why not look at the small screen for answers to all of humanity's dilemmas? There's not a single issue discussed by the great thinkers of the past that hasn't been hashed out between commercials in shows like Mad Men and Leave It To Beaver..."--P. [4] of cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 100 Be Lost 11/04/2017 Add Copy to MyList

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