Seinfeld and philosophy
Subtitle: a book about everything and nothing
By: edited by William Irwin
Series: Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 1
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780812694093
Subjects: Seinfeld (Television program); Miscellanea; Philosophy; Soapseries; Seinfeld (Fernsehsendung); Zin (filosofie); Filosofie; Televisieprogramma's; Philosophie; Aufsatzsammlung
Description: An introduction to philosophy through the lens of "Seinfeld" asks, "Is it rational for George to do the opposite?" and "Is there really anything wrong with that?" and other important topics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Act I : The characters, aka "The New York four"; title: Jerry and Socrates : the examined life?  -- William Irwin; title: George's failed quest for happiness : an Aristotelian analysis  -- Daniel Barwick; title: Elaine Benes : feminist icon or just one of the boys?  -- Sarah E. Worth; title: Kramer and Kierkegaard : stages on life's way  -- William Irwin -- Act II : Seinfeld and the philosophers; title: Making something out of nothing : Seinfeld, sophistry, and the Tao  -- Eric Bronson; title: Plato or Nietzsche? : Time, essence and eternal recurrence in Seinfeld  -- Mark T. Conard; title: Seinfeld, subjectivity, and Sartre  -- Jennifer McMahon; title: Wittgenstein and Seinfeld on the commonplace  -- Kelly Dean Jolley -- Act III : Untimely mediations by the water cooler; title: The Costanza maneuver : is it rational for George to "do the opposite"?  -- Jason Holt; title: Peterman and the ideological mind : paradoxes of subjectivity  -- Norah Martin; title: The secret of Seinfeld's humor : the significance of the insignificant  -- Jorge J.E. Garcia -- Act IV : Is there anything wrong with that?; title: Seinfeld and the moral life  -- Robert A. Epperson; title: Virtue ethics and TV's Seinfeld  -- Aeon J. Skoble; title: The final episode : is doing nothing something? -- Theodore Schick, Jr.