July 30, 2010
Mad Men and Philosophy giveaway on vvb32 reads
You can win a copy of Mad Men and Philosophy on vvb32 reads! Here are the instructions:
1. Take the quiz: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce – Job Interview
Find out if you have what it takes to get hired…
2. Visit Wiley’s site and tell me what other philosophy book interests you.
3. Let me know in comments yours answers with your email.
The contest ends on August 1.
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Mad Men and Philosophy in Slate
[G]raduate school has come to Mad Men in the form of Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is As It Seems. The table of contents are often the best parts of these pop-culture philosophy books—” ‘And Nobody Understands That, but You Do’: The Aristotelian Ideal of Friendship among Mad Men (and Women)”—though, to be fair, there are usually two or three amazing essays as well.
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July 27, 2010
Review of Twilight and Philosophy on infoZine.com
From Taoism to mind reading to the place of God in a world of vampires, Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality is the first book to examine the moral and philosophical dilemmas in the bestselling Twilight series. Some of the questions this book explores include:
- What do the struggles of Edward and his family of “vegetarian” vampires to control their biological urge for human blood say about free will?
- Are vampires morally absolved if they kill only animals and not people?
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July 22, 2010
Mad Men and Philosophy news
Mad Men and Philosophy is getting a lot of attention as the premiere of season 4 approaches. Below, a mention of the book in the New York Times, editor James B. South opines on the meaning of Mad Men for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, and an excerpt on the Wall Street Journal!
It’s a series set in the days of ice-cold martinis and cold war anxiety that has seduced contemporary fashion, advertising and even the English language. There are “Mad Men” Barbie and Ken dolls, a “Mad Men” clothing line at Banana Republic and pop culture books like “Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems.”
[Read the full article at The New York Times.]
What is “Mad Men” about?
“That’s a broad question,” said James B. South, associate professor and chair of Marquette University’s philosophy department. “I think, at the end of the day, it’s a show about a disparate group of people who are trying to come up with identities for themselves in a rapidly changing set of social situations.”
And you thought it was about advertising.
[Read the full article at JSOnline.com.]
Let the words of Roger Sterling consign him to Kierkegaard’s aesthetic lifestyle. First, Sterling distances himself from personal commitment to the extent possible. On the topic of intimacy, love, and friendship: “I have a very good friend . . . cannot remember the guy’s name.” On lasting commitment: “I’ll tell you the same thing I told my daughter. If you put a penny in a jar every time you make love in the first year of marriage and then you take a penny out of the jar every time you make love in the second year, you know what you have? A jar full of pennies.”
[Read the full excerpt at The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog.]
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July 21, 2010
Announcing Stieg Larsson and Philosophy
We’re very pleased to announce the newest title in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, Stieg Larsson and Philosophy. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — comprised of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest — is hugely popular throughout the world, and Larsson’s heavy emphasis on ethics and defense of women’s rights make the series perfect for philosophical analysis.
Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.
Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: Vanger Family Values: Was Martin Destined to Follow His Father?; Why Vengeance is Moral: Nazis, Johns, and the Book of Leviticus; The Psychology of Sadists and Serial Killers; Deadbeat Dads: Zala, Vanger, and The Brothers Karamazov; Elementary, My Dear Blomkvist: What We Learn from Mysteries; Stieg Larsson and Our Dead Author Fetish; Kicking the Artist’s Nest: Good Literature or Guilty Pleasure?; Fermat’s “Marvelous Proof”: Why We Love Mysteries; Media Studies and the Ethics of Revealing Sources; Why Riot Grrrls Love Lisbeth (and Don’t Like You); Is Lisbeth a “Dyke”?; Bodies and Boundaries: Judith Butler and Dragon Tattoos; Intersectionality and Mimmi Wu’s Feminism; Who’s Pinging Whom?: Lisbeth’s Cyborg Manifesto; Psychotics and Whores: Goffman’s Labeling Theory; Medicalization and the Doctors Who Hate Women; Why We Institutionalize the Innocent: Palmgren and Foucault; The Argument from Authority: Why Salander and Vanger Go On the Lamb; Zala’s Secret Section and Foucault’s Governmentality; Surveillance Studies and “The Rolls-Royce of Portable Computers”; Hacker’s Republic: Plague vs. Plato; Is Palmgren a Libertarian?; The Philosopher Who Played With Fire: Larsson’s Marxist Manifesto; Kalle F***ing Blomkvist and Lisbeth F***ing B*tch Salander: An Existential Love Story; Is Mikael Blomkvist an “Insufferable Do-Gooder” or “Just Another A**hole Who Hates Women”?
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July 2, 2010
Dawn Hullender reviews True Blood and Philosophy
While filled with many interesting quotes and thoughts from the HBO hit show, True Blood and Philosophy delves deeper into the supernatural (supe) community by offering some very thought provoking “philosophy.”
In reading this book, you are forced to ask yourself “what if?” “What if” vampires, werewolves and other supes actually exist? Do they deserve they same civic rights as humans? Do they deserve to live their lives unemcumbered by their “abnormal abilities?”
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