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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139019803321

Titolo

Sons of anarchy and philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : brains before bullets / / edited by George A. Dunn and Jason T. Eberl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-118-64166-3

1-118-64171-X

1-118-64162-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Altri autori (Persone)

DunnGeorge A. <1957->

EberlJason T

Disciplina

791.45/72

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"An Equal Mix of Might and Right": Ethics at 92 MPH.  Virtue and Vice in the SAMCROpolis: Aristotle Views Sons of Anarchy  / Jason T. Eberl  --  A Prospect's Guide to Nietzsche / Tim Jung and Minerva Ahumada -- Tig Needs an Escort Home: Is Loyalty A Virtue? /  James Edwin Mahon --   A Saint among the Sons: Aquinas on Murder and the Men of Mayhem /  Randall M. Jensen --  "Off the Social Grid": The Politics of Mayhem. The MC vs. the Leviathan: Laying Down the (Motor)Cycle of Violence /  George A. Dunn --  "The Rat Prince" and The Prince: The Machiavellian Politics of the MC / Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy --  Chaos and Order: Anarchy in the MC /  Bruno De Brito Serra -- "Another Fun-Filled Day in the Six Counties": The Real IRA,  Terrorists or Freedom  Fighters? /   Philip Smolenski --  SAMCRO Goes to War /  Alex Leveringhaus --  "The Concept was Pure, Simple, True": Biker Identity and Meaning.  My Skin, My Self: SAMCRO's Ink and Personal Identity /  Charlene Elsby --  The Faith of Our Sons and the Tragic Quest  /  Kevin Corn -- Once a Biker Slut, Always a Biker Slut: Narrative Identity in Charming /  Minerva Ahumada and Tim Jung -- SAMCRO and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Massimiliano L. Cappuccio -- "The Passion in his Heart and the Reason in his Mind": Sex, Love, and Gender. Sometimes a Motorcycle is Just a Motorcycle: Freud and Hamlet Come to Charming / Andrea Zanin --  When a Charming Woman



Speaks /  Leslie A. Aarons -- Mothers of Anarchy: Power, Control, and Care in the Feminine Sphere /   Leigh C. Kolb -- "Each Savage Event was a Catalyst for the Next": The Historic and the Homeric     Sons of History: How SAMCRO Lost and Found Its Way /  Peter S. Fosl --  Anarchism and Authenticity, or Why SAMCRO Shouldn't Fight History /  Peter S. Fosl -- Good Old Fashioned Mayhem /  Greg Littmann -- The Road Out of Mayhem /  Greg Littmann.

Sommario/riassunto

"Brains before bullets" - ancient and modern wisdom for "mechanics and motorcycle enthusiasts"  Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities. Provides fascinating moral insights into Sons of Anarchy, its key characters, plot lines and ideasInvestigates compelling philosophical issues centering on loyalty, duty, the ethics of war, authority, religion and whether the ends justify the meansTeaches complex philosophical ideas in a way that's accessi