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Avatar : Wisdom from Aang to Zuko
| Avatar : Wisdom from Aang to Zuko |
| Autore | De Smedt Johan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
IrwinWilliam
De CruzHelen EhaszAaron |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser. |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781119809821
9781119809807 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: Drawing Wisdom from Many Different Places -- Preface -- Introduction: "We are all one people, but we live as if divided" -- Notes -- Part I The Universe Of Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Chapter 1 Native Philosophies and Relationality in Avatar: The Last Airbender: It's (Lion) Turtles All the Way Down -- The Benders: Defined by Their Bounded Space -- The People -- ATLA Universe -- Opening (Spirit) Portals -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Getting Elemental: How Many Elements Are There in Avatar: The Last Airbender? -- Fifth Element? -- One or Many -- Energy and Spirit -- Unity of the Elements -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Personalities of Martial Arts in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Water, Waterbending, and Taiji -- Earth, Earthbending, and Hong Jia Kung Fu -- Fire, Firebending, and Northern Shaolin Kung Fu -- Air, Airbending, and Baguazhang -- The Power of the Avatar -- The Wisdom of Combination -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The End of the World: Nationhood and Abolition in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Naturally Real and Socially Real -- "Thinking Like an Airbender": The Elements and Nations as Naturally Real -- Resisting Naturalization, Embracing Unity -- ATLA and Abolitionism -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Bending World, a Bent World: Supernatural Power and Its Political Implications -- Might Is Right, Magnified -- Energybender Is Coming to Town -- A Specter Is Haunting the Bending World -- Notes -- Part II Water -- Chapter 6 Avatar: The Last Airbender and Anishinaabe Philosophy -- Anishinaabe Philosophy Defined -- The Water Tribe and Indigenous Representation -- Spirituality: Similar Ways of Seeing the World -- Notes -- Chapter 7 "Lemur!" - "Dinner!": Human-Animal Relations in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Sokka the Hunter -- Human Ends and Animals as Means -- Sokka-style: Meat, Sarcasm, and Empathy.
Aang's Relations to Animals: Harmless Entertainment? -- No Harm, No Problem? -- Questioning Our Attitudes, Sokka-style -- Notes -- Chapter 8 On the Moral Neutrality of Bloodbending -- The Origins of Bloodbending -- Bloodbending as Advanced Waterbending? -- The Martial Arts Basis of Waterbending and Bloodbending -- The Nature of Bloodbending as Depending on the Character of a Person -- Bending That Saves Life -- Notes -- Chapter 9 On the Ethics of Bloodbending: Why Is It So Wrong and Can It Ever Be Good? -- What Is Bloodbending? -- What Makes Bloodbending Bad? -- Kant and Using as Mere Means -- Does Bloodbending Violate Kant's Principle? -- Can Bloodbending Ever Be Permissible? -- What if Hama Was Wrong? -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Mystical Rationality -- Sokka, the Villagers, and Aunt Wu -- Expected Utility Theory -- The Rationality of Wearing Red Shoes -- Generalizing to Other Cases -- Wrapping Up -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 11 "I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me": Repairing the World Through Care -- Care Ethics -- Katara, a Master of Care -- Care and Political Goals of the Gaang -- Repairing Our Worlds -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Spirits, Visions, and Dreams: Native American Epistemology and the Aang Gaang -- "Knowledge . . . is priceless" (Professor Zei, "The Library") -- "You have no idea where you're going, do you?" (Sokka, "The Warriors of Kyoshi") -- "It's important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale" (Uncle Iroh, "Bitter Work") -- "The past can be a great teacher" (Aang, "The Firebending Masters") -- "I knew I'd know it when I knew it" (King Bumi, "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters") -- Notes -- Part III Earth -- Chapter 13 Time Is an Illusion: Time and Space in the Swamp -- Calling from the Swamp: A Mystical Place. Past, Present, Future: Soul, Mind, and Time -- Everything Is Connected: From Unity to Multiplicity -- Avatar: The Reunion of Multiplicity -- Notes -- Chapter 14 There Is No Truth in Ba Sing Se: Bald-faced Lies and the Nature of Lying -- Fire Nation Disguises and False Statements: Deception, Misleading, and Lying -- Brainwashed Beliefs: Why Falsity Is Not Enough -- The Great Divide Between True and False Beliefs -- Sharp Outfits and Fortunes Told: Metaphors, Bullshit, and Lies -- Bald-faced Lies in Ba Sing Se -- Trust and Truth -- Notes -- Chapter 15 The Rocky Terrain of Disability Gain in Avatar: The Last Airbender: Is Toph a Supercrip Stereotype or a Disability Pride Icon? -- How and Why #RepresentationMatters -- Disability Pain and Disability Gain: Models of Disability and Well-being -- The Master Narrative of the Supercrip: Overcoming Disability with Talent and Pluck -- The Proud Disabled Person as Counterstory -- Notes -- Chapter 16 The Earth King, Ignorance, and Responsibility -- Walls: Creating Order and . . . Barriers -- Must Resist Knowing Any Different -- The Buck Stops Here -- Notes -- Chapter 17 The Middle Way and the Many Faces of Earth -- Earth Is Earth Is Earth Is Earth? -- Neither/Nor -- Earth's Many Ways -- What Can We Learn? -- Notes -- Part IV Fire -- Chapter 18 The Battle Within: Confucianism and Legalism in the Nation, the Family, and the Soul -- The Fire Lord's Legalist Philosophy -- Censure and Legalist Education -- The Phoenix King -- Zuko's Confucian Schooling -- Confucianism Confronts Legalism -- Confucianism and Family -- Zuko's Legacy -- Every Soul Experiences the Battle Within -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Not Giving Up on Zuko: Relational Identity and the Stories We Tell -- Personhood as a Social Practice -- Zuko's Stories -- Personhood and Redemption -- Opening Up Possibilities -- Notes. Chapter 20 Uncle Iroh, From Fool to Sage - Or Sage All Along? -- Iroh as a Zhuangzian Wise Fool -- Viewers Appreciate That Iroh Is Wise from the Beginning -- A Zhuangzian Sage All Along -- Notes -- Chapter 21 Being Bad at Being Good: Zuko's Transformation and Residual Practical Identities -- Aspiration, Transformation, and Practical Identity -- Family, Shame, and Honor (Book One) -- "It's time for you to decide": Inheriting, Finding, and Choosing Destiny (Book Two) -- Being Bad at Being Good: Rethinking Honor and Destiny (Book Three) -- Becoming Good at Being Good -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Compassion and Moral Responsibility in Avatar: The Last Airbender: "I was never angry -- I was afraid that you had lost your way" -- Anger, Blame, and Responsibility -- Katara and the Uses and Misuses of Angry Blame -- Iroh and Compassionate Responses to Wrongdoing -- Zuko, Self-blame, and Self-compassion -- Sometimes We Can Let Go -- Notes -- Part V Air -- Chapter 23 The Fire Nation and the United States: Genocide as the Foundation for Empire Building -- Forging an Empire -- Genocide as Empire-building -- Appropriating History and Place -- Silent Wounds -- Notes -- Chapter 24 Anarchist Airbenders: On Anarchist Philosophy in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- What Is Anarchism? -- What Do Anarchists Believe?4 -- There Are No Unjust Hierarchies in Ba Sing Se -- Human Nature and Mutual Aid -- The Anarchist You Are -- Notes -- Chapter 25 A Buddhist Perspective on Energy Bending, Strength, and the Power of Aang's Spirit -- Powerful Vulnerability -- Unbendable Spirit -- Strength and Vulnerability -- Fearlessness and Power -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Ahimsa and Aang's Dilemma: "Everyone . . . [has] to be treated like they're worth giving a chance" -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Air Nomad Philosophy -- Avataric Philosophy -- Overcoming Dilemmas -- Notes. Chapter 27 The Avatar Meets the Karmapa: Interconnections, Friendship, and Moral Training -- Can the Avatar or the Karmapa Have Friends? -- Moral Training: A Shared Journey -- Alienation, Betrayal, and Repentance: Zuko's Path to Team Avatar -- Journey's End and a Vision of a New Community -- Notes -- Index -- EULA. |
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The Last of Us and Philosophy : Look for the Light
| The Last of Us and Philosophy : Look for the Light |
| Autore | Horn Charles Joshua |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| ISBN |
1-394-22195-9
1-394-22193-2 1-394-22194-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: Survivors -- Acknowledgments: Thank Who You Can Thank -- Introduction: No Questions Left Behind -- Part I Joel's Choice -- Chapter 1 Joel's Choice: Apocalyptic Fantasies, Dystopian Hope, and the Post-Human Question -- It's Different in the Daylight -- When You're Lost in the Darkness -- We Always Win -- Dream of Sheep Ranches on the Moon -- Not Today You New-World-Order Jack-Boot Fucks -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Justifying Joel: In Defense of Love and Favoritism -- Utilitarian Leaders -- Loving Protectors -- In Favor of Favoritism -- Paradoxical -- Notes -- Chapter 3 "He Who Fights with Monsters": Inner-Circle vs. the World in The Last of Us -- The Joiners and the Tribalists in The Last of Us -- FEDRA, the Fireflies, and Utilitarianism -- Tribalism, Communitarianism, and Aristotle -- When You Gaze Too Long into the Abyss -- Appreciating the Beauty of the Other Side -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Is Humanity Worth Saving?: Philosophical Pessimism and Joel's Choice -- Pessimism and The Last of Us -- The Drive to Be Optimistic -- What Can We Hope during the Apocalypse? -- Optimism or Pessimism? -- Notes -- Part II Justice -- Chapter 5 Is Ellie's Revenge Ethically Justified? -- Endorsing Ellie's Quest for Revenge Is an Overtly Contradictory Ethical Position -- Retributive Justice and the Lex Talionis -- The Requirement to Empathize with Abby -- Challenging the Heroic Formula While Playing -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Necessary Violence in The Last of Us Part II -- No Woman Is an Island -- Other Pathways -- What If Violence Is the Only Way? -- Loss and Violence -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Natural Law and Positive Law: Marlene's Understanding of Law and Justice -- Authority and the Force of the Law -- Natural Law and Positive Law -- Who Decides What's the Right Thing to Do?.
Should Justice Be as Blind as a Clicker? -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Last of Us, Hobbes, and the State of Nature -- You're an Animal -- Enter the Leviathan -- Back to the State of Nature -- They Got a Kid, Joel -- If You Don't Think There's Hope for the World … -- Are We More Than Animals? -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Decision Making and Exclusion in The Last of Us -- Perspective Matters -- Who Decides? -- Unite and Empathize -- Part III The Individual and Society -- Chapter 10 Trust, Trustworthiness, and Betrayal in a Post-Apocalyptic World -- Trust in the World of The Last of Us -- Trust and Reliance -- What Is Trust? -- Did Joel Betray Ellie? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Caring for Ellie: From Cadet, to Cargo, to (Almost) Cure11 Caring for Ellie: From Cadet, to Cargo, to (Almost) Cure -- Captain Kwong: "I See a Leader in You" -- Joel: From Cargo to Caring? -- Does Anyone Care for Ellie? -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The Last of Love: Eudaimonia, Friendship, and Love in The Last of Us -- When We Are in Need -- Friendship and Flourishing -- Long, Long Time -- When You're Lost in the Darkness -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Ellie and Abby Are the Queer Feminist Icons We've Been Waiting For -- Ellie and Feminism -- Ellie and Queer Theory -- Ellie and the Power of Imagination -- Integration of Queer Ethics with Ellie and Abby's Quests -- Notes -- Part IV Monsters and Us -- Chapter 14 Kiss of a Cordy: Why Are Humans the Scariest Monsters? -- Are We All Capable of Becoming Monsters? -- Why Do We Need Monsters? -- Is Joel a Hero or a Monster? -- The Monsters Lurking Within Us -- Chapter 15 Self-Deception and Moral Failure in The Last of Us -- Joel's Self-Deception -- Ellie's Quest for Justice -- Abby's Quest for Revenge -- Avoiding Self-Deception -- Notes -- Chapter 16 What Is It Like to Be a Clicker?: Consciousness and Cognition in The Last of Us -- Consciousness. What Doesn't Kill You … -- Fungal Cognition -- Consciousness of the Infected -- Consciousness and the Human Condition -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Global Indigenous Philosophy: Remembering the "Us" -- Now They Come -- Don't Tread on Me! -- Hunkering in a Psycho Bunker -- It's Like a Spaceship -- Mind Infections -- Minding Interconnections -- Notes -- Part V The Humanity of The Last of Us -- Chapter 18 Better to Be Socrates Dissatisfied Than an Infected Satisfied?: Happiness, Flourishing, and the Good Life in The Last of Us -- Knock Knock, Anybody Home? -- Of Unhappy Philosophers and Happy Pigs -- The Struggle Is Real -- Being Happy and Living Well -- Keep Calm and Carry On -- It's Not a Race-But Who Won? -- How to Live Your Best Life -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Aesthetics at the End of the World: Uncanny Objects in The Last of Us -- Aesthetic Experience in a Decaying World -- Uncanny Forces -- Working with the Broken -- Uncanny Shadows -- An Uncanny Aesthetics for an Uncanny World -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Meaning and Emotion in the Music of The Last of Us -- "On the Nature of Daylight" by Max Richter -- "Fuel to Fire" by Agnes Obel -- "Never Let Me Down Again" Cover by Jessica Mazin -- "The Last of Us (Vengeance)" by Gustavo Santaolalla -- "The Last of Us" and "The Path" by Gustavo Santaolalla -- Notes -- Chapter 21 "Some Folks Call This Thing Here a Gee-Tar": Music Making, Duende, Schopenhauer, and Reconciliation in The Last of Us Part II -- The Guitar -- Schopenhauer and the Will -- Music and the Will -- Music and Emotions -- Negative Emotions -- Lorca and Duende -- A Reconciliation -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Humor and Human Intimacy in The Last of Us -- Humor as Plot Device: Sarcasm, Teasing, and Real Laughs -- Puns and Penises: Humor in the Truck -- Teasing, Growth, and Respite -- Notes -- Part VI Religious Considerations at the End of the World. Chapter 23 God as a Survival Tool: Religion in a World of Desperation -- Survival Tools -- David's Religious Experience -- Dina's Faith -- The Life of a Seraphite -- Kant versus the Seraphites: What Must I Do? -- What Can I Know? Surely Not God -- Notes -- Chapter 24 "I Don't Think I Can Ever Forgive You for That": Forgiving the Unforgivable in The Last of Us -- Forgiveness and the Unforgivable -- The Torah, the Gospels, and the Unforgivable -- Atheist Forgiveness -- The Unforgivable (and Gameplay) in The Last of Us -- Seeking Forgiveness, Trying to Forgive -- Notes -- Index -- EULA. |
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| Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 | ||
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Mad Max and Philosophy : Thinking Through the Wasteland
| Mad Max and Philosophy : Thinking Through the Wasteland |
| Autore | Meyer Matthew P |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KoepsellDavid
IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| ISBN |
1-119-87049-6
1-119-87051-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Doing Philosophy in the Wasteland -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Politics after the Pox-Eclipse: Anarchy, State, and Dystopia -- Chapter 1 Post-apocalyptic Anarchism in Mad Max -- Anarchy and Apocalypse -- Roaming the Wasteland -- Not All Government Is Good Government -- Anarchism and Voluntarism -- Is This Anarchy? -- It Doesn't Have to Be Humungus -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Even on the Road, Violence Is Not the Same as Power -- "Only Those Mobile Enough to Scavenge, Brutal Enough to Pillage Survived" -- Why "Lord" Humungus Has Epithets -- Having a Toadie and Going Kamakrazee -- Lords and Immortans: Order and Power -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature in the Wasteland -- "My Name Is Max. My World Is Fire and Blood"-Max, Fury Road -- Not Even Max Can Make It Alone -- "Bartertown's Learned. Now, When Men Get to Fighting, It Happens Here, and It Finishes Here!"-Thunderdome Announcer -- "We Do It My Way"-Lord Humungus, Ayatollah of Rock-and-Rolla -- Beyond the White Line Nightmare -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Political Economy of Bartertown: Embeddedness of Markets, Peak Oil, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Lifeboat Ethics -- Bartertown and the Embeddedness of Markets -- Peak Oil -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Can We Escape the Tragedy? -- Lifeboat Ethics -- The Future -- Notes -- Chapter 5 From Wee Jerusalem to Fury Road: Does Mad Max Depict a Post-apocalyptic Dystopia? -- Pox-Eclipse Full of Pain: Apocalyptic Themes -- You Can Shovel Shit Can't You?: Dystopian Themes -- Nomad Bikers, Bulk Trouble -- A Maggot Living off the Corpse of the Old World -- By My Deeds I Honor Him, V8! -- Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves -- But He's Just a Raggedyman -- Notes -- Part 2 The Man with No Name: Heroes and Finding Oneself Post-apocalypse Style.
Chapter 6 "Pray He's Still out There": Heroism in the Mad Max Films -- "Down the Long Haul, into History Back" -- We Don't Need Another Hero with a Thousand Faces -- We Don't Need Another Absurd Hero -- "Where Must We Go, We Who Wander This Wasteland, in Search of Our Better Selves?" -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Bloodbags and Artificial Arms: Bodily Parthood in Mad Max: Fury Road -- Adhesion: "You Want That Thing off Your Face?" -- Bonding: "Don't Damage the Goods" -- Life: "They've Got My Blood" -- Function: "If You Can't Stand Up, You Can't Do War" -- Integration: "Got Everything You Need" -- Life or Integration: "We're the Only Ones Left" -- Arguing for Integration: "That's My Head!" -- Tattoos and Artificial Arms: "Now We Bring Home the Booty" -- Conclusion: "He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About!" -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Meaning of Life According to Mad Max: Fury Road -- Nux's Faith, Crisis, and Purpose -- Max: From Survival to a Meaningful Life -- Furiosa as a Role Model for a Better Self -- Objective Values -- A Meaningful Life on the Fury Road? -- Notes -- Part 3 Building a Better Tomorrow! Ethics in Mad Max -- Chapter 9 What Saves the World? Care and Ecofeminism -- Who Killed the World? -- I Thought You Girls Were Above All That -- We Are Not Things -- Breeding Stock and Battle Fodder -- Out Here, Everything Hurts -- We're Not Going Back -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Seeking the Good Life in the Wasteland -- Life in the Wasteland -- Who Killed the World? -- Moral Force Patrol -- Nietzsche or Aristotle? Immortan Joe or Furiosa? -- What the First History Man Knew -- "We Might Be Able to … Together … Come Across Some Kind of Redemption" -- "Where Must We Go, We Who Wander This Wasteland in Search of Our Better Selves?" -- Notes -- Chapter 11 "We're Not to Blame!" Responsibility in the Wasteland -- Henchmen and Marauders: A Problem of Many Hands. "Witness!" War Boys and Responsibility -- "Some Got the Luck ... and Some Don't" -- Murderer or Just Kamakrazee? -- "Where Must We Go …?" Who's Responsible? -- Notes -- Chapter 12 "Look, Any Longer out on That Road and I'm One of Them, You Know?": Madness in Mad Max -- Terminal Crazies: Madness and Contagion -- "I Was Sick!": Responsibility and Madness -- Hanging by a Thread: The Furrow of Reason -- "Unleash My Dogs of War": Confinement and Animality -- "I Am Your Lord!": Cults, Shared Psychosis, and Responsibility -- "… One of Them, You Know?" -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Justice, Reason, and the Road Warrior: A Mechanic Reads Plato -- Reason Belongs in the Driver's Seat -- Administrator of Street Justice -- Real Men Eat Dog Food and Fear the Wasteland -- Notes -- Part 4 Mother's Milk: Gender and Intersectionality -- Chapter 14 Homecoming as Homemaking: The Rise of the Matriarchy in Mad Max: Fury Road -- A Stranger Comes to Town ... -- Time for a New Plan -- Nietzsche's Critique of Idealism -- Something Like Redemption -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Liberating Mother's Milk: Imperator Furiosa's Ecofeminist Revolution -- The Inhumanity of the Citadel -- Humanized Humans and Animalized Humans -- The Citadel's Animalized Humans -- Feminized Animals and Animalized Women -- Immortan Joe's Unnatural Empire -- "We Are Not Things!" -- "Who Killed the World?" -- Where Must We Go? -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Demarginalizing Aunty Entity and Dismantling Thunderdome -- What's Race Got to Do with It? -- "You Can Shovel Shit, Can't You?" -- "Welcome to Another Edition of Thunderdome!" -- "But How the World Turns" -- Black Dystopia: "So Much for History" -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Gayboy Berserkers at the Gate: Sex and Gender in the Wasteland -- We Don't Need Another (S)Hero: Beyond Thunderdome, Beyond Sex and Gender -- Everybody's Looking for Something. This Ain't One Body's Tell, It's the Tell of Us All -- Notes -- Part 5 Wasteland Aesthetics: Music, Fashion, Australia, and Nature -- Chapter 18 Driving Insanity, Chaos, and Emotion: The Music of Mad Max: Fury Road -- "High-Octane Crazy Blood Fillin' Me Up" -- "Oh, What a Day! What a Lovely Day!" -- "You Want That Thing off Your Face?" -- "I Can't Wait for Them to See It … Home … the Green Place" -- "If You Can't Fix What's Broken, You'll Uh … You'll Go Insane" -- "Max. My Name Is Max … That's My Name" -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Carapaces and Prosthetics: What Humans Wear in Mad Max: Fury Road -- Guzzolene and Aqua Cola: Bodies, Machines, and Survival -- Staring at Furiosa -- Reflecting on Max -- In Closing: Thinking About the Body in Mad Max -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Does It Matter How Australian the Apocalypse Is? -- What Is It for a Film to Feel Australian? -- Does the Mad Max Franchise Owe Something to Australians? -- Is It Important for Australians to See Themselves Represented? -- Making Sense in a World Gone Mad -- Shouldn't Films Come in All Flavors? -- Everyone Should Have an Aussie Hero -- Notes -- Chapter 21 The Moral Aesthetics of Nature: Bioconservativism in Mad Max -- Man Versus Machine -- Broken Bodies in the Wasteland -- Nature and Dignity in Mad Max -- Each of Us in Our Own Way Was Broken -- No Nature, No Dignity -- Notes -- Index -- EULA. |
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Ted Lasso and Philosophy : No Question Is into Touch
| Ted Lasso and Philosophy : No Question Is into Touch |
| Autore | Baggett Marybeth |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaggettDavid
IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| ISBN |
1-119-89194-9
1-119-89195-7 1-119-89196-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- A Taste of Athens -- Part I Do the Right-EST ThinG -- Chapter 1 On the Pitch with Saint Augustine -- What Is Love? -- The Ordo Amoris in Ted Lasso -- Worship at Crystal Palace -- Saints and Scamps -- Ted Lasso: The Father We Never Had -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Isaac Finds His Flow -- The Dao of Isaac -- "Do without Ado," McAdoo! -- Barbers, Butchers, and Football Players, or "Football Is Life!" -- How to Cook a Small Fish -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Ted Talk, Precursive Faith, and the Ethics of Belief -- Belief in Belief -- The Ethics of Belief -- Precursive Faith -- Gotta Look Right -- Faith and Practice -- Rightness, Religion, and Relations -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Is Ted an Egoist? -- The Nature of Enlightened Egoism -- Is Ted Lasso an Egoist? -- Time to Face the Press -- Notes -- Part II The Best Versions of Ourselves -- Chapter 5 Fear's a Lot Like Underwear -- Like Riding a Horse -- Let's Get Started, Shall We? -- They Really Should Write Songs About It -- A Longer Run Than He Thinks -- Onward, Forward -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Lassoing Aristotle -- A Bad Start for Rebecca, Nate, Roy, and Jamie -- Immorality Loneliness Misery -- Best Version of Ourselves -- Princess and Dragon -- You Complete Our Team -- Jamie Less Tart -- Self-Love and Self-Loathing in Richmond -- A Work in Progmess -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Ted Lasso's Personal Dilemma Squad -- Personal Metaphorical Saint Bernard -- The Lasso Way -- Best Versions of What? -- The Knights of Support -- A Team United -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Affable Gaffer -- Seems Mighty Fragile -- The Power of Friendship -- Three Amigos -- Hire Your Best Friend? -- Friendly Bantr -- The Lasso Way -- Notes -- Part III Man City -- Chapter 9 Poop in the Punchbowl -- The Anatomy of BS -- The Good Guys of Ted Lasso -- Portrait of a BS Artist As an Old Man.
A Yardstick for Growth -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Doing Masculinity Better -- I Want to Torture Rupert -- Success Is Not About the Wins and Losses -- Between the Goal Posts -- Missing the Mark -- Time to Woman Up -- Doing the Right Thing Is Never the Wrong Thing -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Inverting the Gender Pyramid -- Playing a Man Down -- Perhaps Not an Oasis -- Suffering Is Necessary -- Be Curious, Not Judgmental -- Holding On to Your Manhood -- Inverting the Pyramid the Richmond Way -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Who Is Right, Ted or Beard? -- Winning Is the Only Thing -- The Lasso Way -- The New Lasso Way -- The Answer -- Notes -- Part IV Mostly Football Is Life -- Chapter 13 Amplifying Emotion and Warmth at Richmond -- "Strange" by Celeste -- "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann -- "Piano Joint" by Michael Kiwanuka -- "She's a Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones -- "Roy Walk Off" by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe -- "Spiegel im Spiegel"14 (Arvo Pärt) by Nick and Becka Mohammed -- The "Ted Lasso Theme" by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Is This Indeed All a Simulation? -- Could This All Be a Simulation? -- Bostrom's Simulation Questions -- Bostrom's Simulation Equation (Without the Math) -- Is Led Tasso Real? -- Tipping Coach Beard's Cap -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Kansas City Candide Meets Compassionate Camus -- Rom-Communism1 -- Candide -- Principle of Sufficient Reason -- Greater Goods Theodicy -- Problems with Panglossian Optimism -- Can Don't -- The Plague -- Affirmative Atheism -- Hope Is Suicidal -- A Strange Hope -- One Is the Loneliest Number -- Belief in the Collective -- No "I" In Team -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Ted's Chestertonian Optimism -- Inverting the Pyramid -- Chesterton's Relentless Delight -- Believe in What, Exactly? -- An Adequate Foundation -- Notes -- Part V Smells Like Potential -- Chapter 17 What To Do with Tough Cookies -- A Salty Bunch. Trent Crimm, The Independent -- Cover-Up Revealed -- Looking for Something Deeper -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Stoic Bossgirl -- Slacker or Stoic? -- The Have-It-All Generation -- Rebecca aka da Boss -- Girlboss Mentor -- Being the Boss on Bantr -- Soccer Mom -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Why a Headbutt Might Have Hurt Nate Less -- Life's Most Complicated Shape -- Change Is Scary -- All Apologies -- Can You Make Me Famous? -- Nate the Great -- The Hope That Kills You -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Is Rupert Beyond Redemption? -- Maybe We'll Turn It Around -- Reverse the Curse -- Being Accountable Matters -- The Dark Forest -- Like a JIF (Or Is It GIF?) -- Every Choice Is a Chance -- Notes -- Beard's Bookshelf -- Starting Lineup -- Index -- EULA. |
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Baggett Marybeth
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| Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 | ||
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Ted Lasso and Philosophy : No Question Is into Touch
| Ted Lasso and Philosophy : No Question Is into Touch |
| Autore | Baggett Marybeth |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BaggettDavid
IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| ISBN |
1-119-89194-9
1-119-89195-7 1-119-89196-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- A Taste of Athens -- Part I Do the Right-EST ThinG -- Chapter 1 On the Pitch with Saint Augustine -- What Is Love? -- The Ordo Amoris in Ted Lasso -- Worship at Crystal Palace -- Saints and Scamps -- Ted Lasso: The Father We Never Had -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Isaac Finds His Flow -- The Dao of Isaac -- "Do without Ado," McAdoo! -- Barbers, Butchers, and Football Players, or "Football Is Life!" -- How to Cook a Small Fish -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Ted Talk, Precursive Faith, and the Ethics of Belief -- Belief in Belief -- The Ethics of Belief -- Precursive Faith -- Gotta Look Right -- Faith and Practice -- Rightness, Religion, and Relations -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Is Ted an Egoist? -- The Nature of Enlightened Egoism -- Is Ted Lasso an Egoist? -- Time to Face the Press -- Notes -- Part II The Best Versions of Ourselves -- Chapter 5 Fear's a Lot Like Underwear -- Like Riding a Horse -- Let's Get Started, Shall We? -- They Really Should Write Songs About It -- A Longer Run Than He Thinks -- Onward, Forward -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Lassoing Aristotle -- A Bad Start for Rebecca, Nate, Roy, and Jamie -- Immorality Loneliness Misery -- Best Version of Ourselves -- Princess and Dragon -- You Complete Our Team -- Jamie Less Tart -- Self-Love and Self-Loathing in Richmond -- A Work in Progmess -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Ted Lasso's Personal Dilemma Squad -- Personal Metaphorical Saint Bernard -- The Lasso Way -- Best Versions of What? -- The Knights of Support -- A Team United -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Affable Gaffer -- Seems Mighty Fragile -- The Power of Friendship -- Three Amigos -- Hire Your Best Friend? -- Friendly Bantr -- The Lasso Way -- Notes -- Part III Man City -- Chapter 9 Poop in the Punchbowl -- The Anatomy of BS -- The Good Guys of Ted Lasso -- Portrait of a BS Artist As an Old Man.
A Yardstick for Growth -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Doing Masculinity Better -- I Want to Torture Rupert -- Success Is Not About the Wins and Losses -- Between the Goal Posts -- Missing the Mark -- Time to Woman Up -- Doing the Right Thing Is Never the Wrong Thing -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Inverting the Gender Pyramid -- Playing a Man Down -- Perhaps Not an Oasis -- Suffering Is Necessary -- Be Curious, Not Judgmental -- Holding On to Your Manhood -- Inverting the Pyramid the Richmond Way -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Who Is Right, Ted or Beard? -- Winning Is the Only Thing -- The Lasso Way -- The New Lasso Way -- The Answer -- Notes -- Part IV Mostly Football Is Life -- Chapter 13 Amplifying Emotion and Warmth at Richmond -- "Strange" by Celeste -- "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann -- "Piano Joint" by Michael Kiwanuka -- "She's a Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones -- "Roy Walk Off" by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe -- "Spiegel im Spiegel"14 (Arvo Pärt) by Nick and Becka Mohammed -- The "Ted Lasso Theme" by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Is This Indeed All a Simulation? -- Could This All Be a Simulation? -- Bostrom's Simulation Questions -- Bostrom's Simulation Equation (Without the Math) -- Is Led Tasso Real? -- Tipping Coach Beard's Cap -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Kansas City Candide Meets Compassionate Camus -- Rom-Communism1 -- Candide -- Principle of Sufficient Reason -- Greater Goods Theodicy -- Problems with Panglossian Optimism -- Can Don't -- The Plague -- Affirmative Atheism -- Hope Is Suicidal -- A Strange Hope -- One Is the Loneliest Number -- Belief in the Collective -- No "I" In Team -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Ted's Chestertonian Optimism -- Inverting the Pyramid -- Chesterton's Relentless Delight -- Believe in What, Exactly? -- An Adequate Foundation -- Notes -- Part V Smells Like Potential -- Chapter 17 What To Do with Tough Cookies -- A Salty Bunch. Trent Crimm, The Independent -- Cover-Up Revealed -- Looking for Something Deeper -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Stoic Bossgirl -- Slacker or Stoic? -- The Have-It-All Generation -- Rebecca aka da Boss -- Girlboss Mentor -- Being the Boss on Bantr -- Soccer Mom -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Why a Headbutt Might Have Hurt Nate Less -- Life's Most Complicated Shape -- Change Is Scary -- All Apologies -- Can You Make Me Famous? -- Nate the Great -- The Hope That Kills You -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Is Rupert Beyond Redemption? -- Maybe We'll Turn It Around -- Reverse the Curse -- Being Accountable Matters -- The Dark Forest -- Like a JIF (Or Is It GIF?) -- Every Choice Is a Chance -- Notes -- Beard's Bookshelf -- Starting Lineup -- Index -- EULA. |
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The ultimate Daily Show and philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : more moments of Zen, more indecision theory
| The ultimate Daily Show and philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : more moments of Zen, more indecision theory |
| Autore | Holt Jason |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.45/72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| Soggetto topico | Television comedies - United States - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-118-39770-3
1-118-61738-X 1-118-61741-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy: More Moments : of Zen, More : Indecision Theory; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Wiley-Blackwell's World Philosophy Headquarters in Malden; Segment 1 Headlines: Faux News Is Good News; 1 Rallying Against the Conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and Entertainment Bias; Amusing Ourselves to Death; The Huxleyan Warning; Postman and Television News; The Daily Show and Television News; Conversation and Crossfire; Business News, CNBC, and Jim Cramer; Fox News Sunday and TV's Entertainment Bias
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear A Huxleyan Moment of Zen?; Notes; 2 The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News Source; Is The Daily Show Fiction?; Hilarious Make-'Em-Ups; Sheer Outrageousness and Surprising Truth; The Role of "Senior" Correspondents; Playing Dumb; The Daily Show, Our Government, and Other News Outlets; The Daily Show v. The Onion; Fake News, Real Messages; Notes; 3 The Daily Show: An Ethos for the Fifth Estate; All the Fake News Fit to Print; The Voice of the People; The Fifth Estate as a State of Mind; Notes 4 Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon The Politics of Laughter; The Dark Side of Mockery; Mockery, Censorship, and the Free Spread of Ideas; The Place of Mockery in Politics; Notes; 5 Keeping It (Hyper) Real: Anchoring in the Age of Fake News; Baudrillard's World; The Walking Talking Hyperreal; Organize a Fake News Broadcast; The "Best F#@king News Team Ever"; The Larger Argument; Notes; Segment 2 Live Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher, Sort of; 6 Jon Stewart: The New and Improved Public Intellectual; Why Americans Hate Intellectuals You Know It's Hard out Here for a Public Intellectual Stewart's Ironic Blah, Blah, Blah; "Help Us Hebrew One! You're Our Only Hope!"; Notes; 7 Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power; Here Come the Sophists!; To Scoff at the Sophist in Office; Men with a Mission; A Method to Their Madness; The Audience: Questioning Youths or Stoned Slackers?; The Irony of It All; "Monkey" Idol or Thoughtful Partisan Satirist?; Notes; 8 Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101; Rebel with a Cause; Humor Leads to Truth; A Healthy Dose of Cynicism; Notes; 9 "Jews! Camera 3": How Jon Stewart Echoes Martin Buber Really? You're Jewish?Team Buber; Passover v. Easter; Earth (The Book)-Mocking the Sacred; The New Jersey Connection; Notes; Segment 3 Field Report: Politics and Critical Thinking; 10 More Bullshit: Political Spin and the PR-Ization of Media ; The Essence of Bullshit and the Truth about Lies; Liars, Liars, Pants on Fire; More Bullshit, Piled Higher and Deeper; A New Spin on an Old Art; Was Frankfurt BS-ing about Spin?; PR-ization of the Media; Spin Alley; Truth Matters; Notes; 11 The Senior Black Correspondent: Saying What Needs to Be Said; Satire: A Tradition of Cultural Criticism Operating at the Border |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139037603321 |
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ultimate Daily Show and philosophy : more moments of Zen, more indecision theory
| The ultimate Daily Show and philosophy : more moments of Zen, more indecision theory |
| Autore | Holt Jason |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.45/72 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | IrwinWilliam |
| Collana | The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series |
| Soggetto topico | Television comedies - United States - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-118-39770-3
1-118-61738-X 1-118-61741-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy: More Moments : of Zen, More : Indecision Theory; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Wiley-Blackwell's World Philosophy Headquarters in Malden; Segment 1 Headlines: Faux News Is Good News; 1 Rallying Against the Conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and Entertainment Bias; Amusing Ourselves to Death; The Huxleyan Warning; Postman and Television News; The Daily Show and Television News; Conversation and Crossfire; Business News, CNBC, and Jim Cramer; Fox News Sunday and TV's Entertainment Bias
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear A Huxleyan Moment of Zen?; Notes; 2 The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News Source; Is The Daily Show Fiction?; Hilarious Make-'Em-Ups; Sheer Outrageousness and Surprising Truth; The Role of "Senior" Correspondents; Playing Dumb; The Daily Show, Our Government, and Other News Outlets; The Daily Show v. The Onion; Fake News, Real Messages; Notes; 3 The Daily Show: An Ethos for the Fifth Estate; All the Fake News Fit to Print; The Voice of the People; The Fifth Estate as a State of Mind; Notes 4 Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon The Politics of Laughter; The Dark Side of Mockery; Mockery, Censorship, and the Free Spread of Ideas; The Place of Mockery in Politics; Notes; 5 Keeping It (Hyper) Real: Anchoring in the Age of Fake News; Baudrillard's World; The Walking Talking Hyperreal; Organize a Fake News Broadcast; The "Best F#@king News Team Ever"; The Larger Argument; Notes; Segment 2 Live Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher, Sort of; 6 Jon Stewart: The New and Improved Public Intellectual; Why Americans Hate Intellectuals You Know It's Hard out Here for a Public Intellectual Stewart's Ironic Blah, Blah, Blah; "Help Us Hebrew One! You're Our Only Hope!"; Notes; 7 Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power; Here Come the Sophists!; To Scoff at the Sophist in Office; Men with a Mission; A Method to Their Madness; The Audience: Questioning Youths or Stoned Slackers?; The Irony of It All; "Monkey" Idol or Thoughtful Partisan Satirist?; Notes; 8 Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101; Rebel with a Cause; Humor Leads to Truth; A Healthy Dose of Cynicism; Notes; 9 "Jews! Camera 3": How Jon Stewart Echoes Martin Buber Really? You're Jewish?Team Buber; Passover v. Easter; Earth (The Book)-Mocking the Sacred; The New Jersey Connection; Notes; Segment 3 Field Report: Politics and Critical Thinking; 10 More Bullshit: Political Spin and the PR-Ization of Media ; The Essence of Bullshit and the Truth about Lies; Liars, Liars, Pants on Fire; More Bullshit, Piled Higher and Deeper; A New Spin on an Old Art; Was Frankfurt BS-ing about Spin?; PR-ization of the Media; Spin Alley; Truth Matters; Notes; 11 The Senior Black Correspondent: Saying What Needs to Be Said; Satire: A Tradition of Cultural Criticism Operating at the Border |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819907603321 |
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Holt Jason
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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