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Philosophy and Breaking bad / Kevin S. Decker, David R. Koepsell, Robert Arp, editors.

Title
Philosophy and Breaking bad / Kevin S. Decker, David R. Koepsell, Robert Arp, editors.
Publication
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, published by Springer Nature, [2017].

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Additional Authors
  • Arp, Robert
  • Decker, Kevin S.
  • Koepsell, David R.|q(David Richard)
Description
xx, 266 pages; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Breaking bad (Television program : 2008-2013)
  • Ethics > Philosophy
  • Ethics > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. "We tried to poison you" : breaking evil / Jen Baker -- Eichmann in Albuquerque / Karen Adkins -- Empathy and evil : drug-dealing murderers are people too / Charlene Elsby and Rob Luzecky -- Pt. II. "I am the one who knocks" : the shadow of death and the meaning of life. In the shadow of the sickness unto death : Walter White's transformation into the knight of meth / Frank Scalambrino -- Death is easy if you're dead / Christopher Ketcham -- Cosmic justice in Breaking Bad : can sociopaths and antiheroes lead meaningful lives? / Kimberly Blessing -- Law and morality in Breaking Bad : the aesthetics of justice / David Koepsell -- Pt. III. "I will put you under the jail" : the tragedy of Breaking Bad -- The crumbling patriarchy and triumphant feminist ethic of care in Breaking Bad / Leigh Kolb -- What bad is not : Breaking Bad, apophatic and dramaturgic continua from creator to viewer, and a poetics of the philosophy of religion / Jesse Abbot -- Pt. IV. "I did it for me" : morality, mastery and meth. Recovering lost moral ground : can Walt make amends / James Edwin Mahon and Joseph Mahan -- (Im) morality in action / Travis Dyk and Adam Barkman -- The transformation of Walter White : a case study in bad faith / Leslie A. Aarons -- Breaking bonds : white lines of love and hate / Sara Waller -- Pt. V. Becoming Jesse James : Breaking Bad's challenge to philosophy -- Hatred : Walter White is doing it all wrong / Kevin Guilfoy -- "We are responsible to all for all" : an intersubjective analysis of Breaking Bad / Sheridan Hough -- Theater of the absurb : Breaking Bad as edifying philosophy / Kevin S. Decker.
ISBN
  • 9783319403427
  • 3319403427
  • 9783319403434 (online) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9783319406657 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
9783319403427
Owning Institutions
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