Arrested Development and Philosophy : They've Made a Huge Mistake.
A smart philosophical look at the cult hit television show, Arrested DevelopmentArrested Development earned six Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, critical acclaim, and a loyal cult following--and then it was canceled. Fortunately, this book steps into the void left by the show's premature demi...
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Table of Contents:
- Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've made a Huge Mistake; Contents; Acknowledgments: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of the Bluth Company; Introduction; Part One: Family First; 1: Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths; 2: Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor; 3: Freudian Arrested Development; 4: Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith; Part Two: A Business Model; 5: Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution; 6: Family First: How Not to Run a Business.
- 7: Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class StatusPart Three: Some Huge Mistakes; 8: What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in Arrested Development; 9: "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in Arrested Development; 10: To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested Development; 11: I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in Arrested Development; Part Four: The One Where They Do Epistemology; 12: You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft; 13: Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge?
- 14: Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development, Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of ObservationPart Five: Solid As Iraq: Politics And Ethics Arrested; 15: No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason; 16: "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development; 17: The Comedy of Contradiction; Part Six: And On The Epilogue . . .; 18: And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning; Contributors: Banana Stand Employee Roster; Index: Banana Stand Inventory.