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An edition of Seinfeld and philosophy (2000)

Seinfeld and philosophy

a book about everything and nothing

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  • 8 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

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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Open Court
Language
English
Pages
216

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Subjects

Seinfeld (Television program), Miscellanea, Philosophy, Soapseries, Seinfeld (Fernsehsendung), Zin (filosofie), Filosofie, Televisieprogramma's, Philosophie, Aufsatzsammlung, American wit and humor, social life and customs, Philosophy, american, Philosophy, modern, 20th century, Seinfeld

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Jerry Seinfeld
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Cover of: Seinfeld and philosophy
Seinfeld and philosophy: a book about everything and nothing
2000, Open Court
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago
Series
Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
100
Library of Congress
B68 .S44 2000, B68.S44 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 216 p. ;
Number of pages
216

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24961570M
Internet Archive
seinfeldphilosop00irwi
ISBN 10
0812694090
ISBN 13
9780812694093
LCCN
99015910
OCLC/WorldCat
41404340

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