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Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've Made a Huge Mistake(The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)

Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've Made a Huge Mistake(The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)


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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY Is George Michael’s crush on his cousin unnatural? Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide her job? Is Gob better off living his life in bad faith? What inferences can we draw from Tobias’s double-entendres? Are the pictures really of bunkers or balls? The Bluth family’s faults, foibles, and character flaws are so excruciatingly familiar that we squirm in painful recognition of the outrageous impulses that we all have but would never act on. The Bluths seem utterly unaware of the gaping distance between their behavior and accepted social norms. Lurking behind this craziness are large moral and philosophical issues to be explored. From Plato to Aristotle, from Descartes to Marx, Arrested Development and Philosophy draws from great philosophical minds to shed new light on the show’s key questions and captivating themes, including the nature of self-knowledge and happiness, business ethics and capitalist alienation, social class, the role of error in character development, and much more.

Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of the Bluth Company ix INTRODUCTION 1 Kristopher Phillips PART ONE FAMILY FIRST 1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7 Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman 2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor 23 Deborah R. Barnbaum 3 Freudian Arrested Development 33 Tim Jung 4 Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46 Daniel P. Malloy PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL 5 Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution 61 Jeff Ewing 6 Family First: How Not to Run a Business 73 Brett Gaul 7 Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class Status 85 Rachel McKinney PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES 8 What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in Arrested Development 99 J. Jeremy Wisnewski 9 "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in Arrested Development 111 M. E. Verrochi 10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested Development 123 Darci Doll 11 I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in Arrested Development 136 Kristopher Phillips PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY 12 You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft 151 Michael Cholbi 13 Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge? 162 Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips 14 Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development, Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation 172 Michael Da Silva PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED 15 No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason 185 Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco 16 "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development 197 Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew Holmes 17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210 Erin Fay and Willie Young PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . . 18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning 227 Tyler Shores CONTRIBUTORS: Banana Stand Employee Roster 241 INDEX: Banana Stand Inventory 247

About the Author :
KRISTOPHER G. PHILLIPS is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. J. JEREMY WISNEWSKI is an associate professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. He is the editor of Family Guy and Philosophy, The Office and Philosophy, and 30 Rock and Philosophy, and coeditor of X-Men and Philosophy and Twilight and Philosophy. WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles including House and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy. To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470575598
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 421 gr
  • ISBN-10: 047057559X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
  • Sub Title: They've Made a Huge Mistake
  • Width: 152 mm


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