How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Being and Awesomeness
Redaktion: Matterhorn, Lorenzo von

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Like philosophy itself, How I Met Your Mother has everyone thinking. How does a successful show that's been on the air for years suddenly become a hit in its fifth and sixth season? Have you ever wondered why you identify so strongly with Barney despite the fact that he's such a douche? Or why your life story doesn't make sense until you know the ending-or at least, the middle? Or where the Bro Code came from and why it's so powerful? Or why you'd sooner miss the hottest date in your life than have to live in New Jersey?
Of course you have, or if you haven't, you'll clearly remember from now on that you have. How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy answers all these questions and a whole lot more, including one or two that even you may not have thought of.
Twenty of the awesome-est philosophers ever congregated in one bar have come together to quaff a few drinks-and to analyze this most awesomely philosophical of sit-coms. They poke, prod, and sniff at such momentous matters as the metaphysics of possimpible worlds, the misdeeds of Goliath National Bank, the ontology of waiting to get slapped, the epistemology of sexual attraction, why the Platinum Rule is to never love thy neighbor, the authenticity of censoring yourself, the ethics of doing bad things with partly good intentions, why future Ted's opinions matter to present-day Ted, whether it's irrational to wait for the Slutty Pumpkin, and why Canadians have that strange Canadian slant on things.
This book shows that viewers of How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy know that philosophy is much more than a song and dance routine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Court
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812698459
• Artikelnr.: 40020420

Autorenporträt

Lorenzo von Matterhorn is the pseudonym of a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University (UK). He is the author of Between Perception and Action and Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (both forthcoming in 2013 from Oxford University Press), and editor of Perceiving the World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Before taking up full-time philosophy he was well known as a movie critic, and served on the jury at several major international film festivals. He lives in Antwerp, Belgium and Cambridge, England.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
1. Bence Nanay: Empathy for the Devil: Why on Earth Do We Identify with
Barney?
2. Miguel Angel Sebastian and Manolo Martinez: Smoking Subs and Eating
Joints: What Counts as True in Fiction?
3. Jordan Pascoe: Telling Each Other Everything
4. Tobias Hainz and Yvonne Würz: Is It Irrational to Wait for the Slutty
Pumpkin?
5. Maryam Babur: Legend-wait for it-dary: The Anti-Mid-life Crisis
Medicine?
6. Kris Goffin: When I Get Sad I Just Stop Being Sad and Be Awesome Instead
7. Carter Hardy: Barney's Magical World of Self-deception
8. M. Chris Sardo: The Cockamouse of Minerva Flies at Dusk: Ted Mosby as
Reader of Hegel
9. Tina Talsma: A Mother and A Career-Woman: A Tale of Two Feminist Icons
10. Thomas Ainsworth: Me, me, me! Barney the Egoist
11. Michela Bordignon: How to Be Really Awesome : Living the Contradictions
of a Possimpible World
12. Elize De Mul: Sandwiches, Blue Horns, Bob Barker and a Goat. Telling
Your Life Story.
13. Joe Slater: The Barney Stinson Theory of Truth: True Story
14. Amanda Ypma: Robin Scherbatsky, the Most Amazing, Strong, Independent
Woman Barney Has Ever Banged
15. Frank Karioris: The Bro Code as a Relational Starter
16. Radu Uszkai and Emanuel Socaciu: The Story of the Platinum Rule, as
told by David Hume and Barney Stinson: Should You Really Really "Love" Thy
Neighbor?
17. Bart van Beek: The Pick-up Game