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Seinfeld and philosophy : a book about everything and nothing / edited by William Irwin.
- Title
- Seinfeld and philosophy : a book about everything and nothing / edited by William Irwin.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Irwin, William, 1970-
- Description
- xiii, 216 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- miscellanies.
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Miscellanées.
- Note
- Series statement provided by list in later volume.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0812694090 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99015910^
- OCLC
- 41404340
- SCSB-11732168
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library