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| Acknowledgments: Thanks to Some Real Achievers | |
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| Introduction: Sometimes There’s a Film | |
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| First Round Robin: Tying It All Together, Or Not | |
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| What Would the Dude Do? Deconstructing the Dude | |
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| The Big Lebowski and Mathematical Logic | |
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| Second Round Robin: Thousands Of Years Of Philosophical Tradition, Or From Socrates To Sandy Koufax | |
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| The Dude Abides, but Does He Flourish? | |
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| �Man Down!�: Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Dude on Friendship and Solidarity | |
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| Epicurus and �Contented Poverty�: The Big Lebowski as Epicurean Parable | |
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| Buddhism, Daoism, and Dudeism | |
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| Third Round Robin: Over The Line! | |
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| Drawing a Line in the Sand: Rules of Aggression in The Big Lebowski | |
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| �That Ain’t Legal Either�: Rules, Virtue, and Authenticity in The Big Lebowski | |
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| Fourth Round Robin: Nothing To Be Afraid Of | |
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| Bowling Our Way out of Nihilism | |
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| Existentialism, Absurdity, and The Big Lebowski | |
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| Bowling, Despair, and American Nihilism | |
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| Fifth Round Robin: What Makes A Dude? | |
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| The Big Lebowski’s Oedipal Complex | |
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| In the Dude, I Abide: Being an Achiever at Lebowski Fest | |
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| �Mr. Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women, Man�: The Dude as Feminist Ally | |
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| �Well, I Do Work, Sir�: The Dude and the Value of Sloth | |
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| Sixth Round Robin: Mark It Zero! | |
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| �Am I Wrong?�: Walter’s Will to Believe | |
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| �That’s Just Like, Uh, Your Opinion, Man�: Jesus, the Dude, and Ordinary Language Philosophy | |
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| Seventh Round Robin: Livin� In The Past | |
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| Hippies, Jews, and the Philosophy of Memory | |
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| �I Don’t Roll on Shabbas!�: Jewish Identity and the Meaning of History in The Big Lebowski | |
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| Contributors: The Rest of the Dude’s Bowling Team | |
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| Index: Little of This, Little of That | |