The office and philosophy
Subtitle: scenes from the unexamined life
By: edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
Contributors: Wisnewski, Jeremy.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781405175555
Subjects: Office (Television program : United States); Office (Television program : Great Britain); Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory memo: A note to our suppliers in the US and the UK : support philosophy, it uses lots of paper!; title: A note to bitter Brits and confused Americans...; title: The dundies : some awards for making this book possible; title: Memo 1: paper thin morality; title: Screws and nails : paper tigers and moral monsters in The office (US) / J. Jeremy Wisnewski; title: Flirting in The office : what can Jim and Pam's romantic antics teach us about moral philosophy? (US) / Mark D. White; title: Can Michael ever learn? empathy and the self-other gap (US) / Andrew Terjesen; title: Leaving the dice alone : pointlessness and helplessness at Wernham-Hogg (UK) / Wim Vandekerckhove and Eva E. Tsahuridu; title: The virtues of humor : what The office can teach us about Aristotle's ethics (UK) / Sean McAleer; title: Memo 2: know thyself!; title: Pam and Jim on the make : the epistemology of self-deception (US) / Stefanie Rocknak; title: What Dwight doesn't know can't hurt him; title: or can it? deception and self-deception in The office (US) / Randall M. Jensen; title: Authenticity or happiness? Michael Scott and the ethics of self-deception (US) / Jonathan Evans and Peter Murphy; title: Humiliation in The office (and at home) (US) / John Elia; title: Memo 3: funny and not-so-funny business; title: Laughter between distraction and awakening : Marxist themes in The office (US) / Michael Bray; title: Being-in-The office : Sartre, the look, and the viewer (US) / Matthew P. Meyer and Gregory J. Schneider; title: A boy who swims faster than a shark : Jean Baudrillard visits The office (UK) / Russell Manning; title: Memo 4: mind your business!; title: Stakeholders vs. stockholders in The office (US) / Rory E. Kraft, Jr.; title: Attacking with the north : affirmative action and The office (US) / David Kyle Johnson; title: Darkies, dwarves, and benders : political (in)correctness in The office (UK) / Thomas Nys; title: The hostile office : Michael as a sexual harasser (US) / Keith Dromm; title: The obscene watermark : corporate responsibility at Dunder-Mifflin (US) / David Kyle Johnson; title: Memo 5: philosophy at the water cooler...; title: For l'amour : love and friendship in The office (US) / Robert Arp and Jamie Watson; title: Look at the ears! the problem of natural kinds (UK) / Thomas Nys; title: Gareth Keenan investigates paraconsistent logic : the case of the missing Tim and the redundancy paradox (UK) / Morgan Luck; title: Being your self in The office (US) / Rick Mayock; title: Michael Scott is going to die (US) / Meg Lonergan and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.