Seinfeld and Philosophy A Book about Everything and Nothing

Name: Seinfeld and Philosophy A Book about Everything and Nothing
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ISBN: 9780812694093

ISBN-10: 0812694090

ISBN-13: 9780812694093

Edition: 2000

Authors: William Irwin

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This collection uses episodes of the hit US TV show Seinfeld to introduce important concepts in philosophy. Some essays are devoted to single characters, while others explore philosophical issues raised by the show.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Monologue: Seinfeld, "The Field of Being"




The Characters, aka "The New York Four"



Jerry and Socrates: The Examined Life?




George's Failed Quest for Happiness: An Aristotelian Anaylsis




Elaine Benes: Feminist Icon or Just One of the Boys?




Kramer and Kierkegaard: Stages on Life's Way




Seinfeld and the Philosophers



Making Something out of Nothing: Seinfeld, Sophistry, and the Tao




Plato or Nietzsche?: Time, Essence, and Eternal Recurrence in Seinfeld




Seinfeld, Subjectivity, and Sartre




Wittgenstein and Seinfeld on the Commonplace




Untimely Mediations by the Water Cooler



The Costanza Maneuver: Is it Rational for George to "Do the Opposite"?




Peterman and the Ideological Mind: Paradoxes of Subjectivity




The Secret of Seinfeld's Humor: The Significance of the Insignificant




Is there Anything Wrong with That?



Seinfeld and the Moral Life




Virtue Ethics and TV's Seinfeld




The Final Episode: Is Doing Nothing Something?



What's the deal with Episode Lists? Episode Guide


Who are these Philosophers? A Chronology of Some Big-Time Philosophers


Who are these People? Notes on the Script Writers, aka the Contributors to This Volume


Index of Everything