Mad men and philosophy
Subtitle: nothing is as it seems
By: edited by Rod Carveth and James B. South.
Contributors: Carveth, Rod.; South, James B., 1960-
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780470603017
Subjects: Mad men (Television program)
Description: This collection of essays takes an unprecedented look at the philosophical issues and themes behind AMC's Emmy Award-winning show, Mad Men, exploring issues ranging from identity to authenticity to feminism, and more.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: People may see things differently, but they don't really want to :  Mad men and problems of knowledge and freedom. What fools we were: Mad men, hindsight, and justification / Landon W. Schurtz; title: People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone : mimetic madness at Sterling Cooper / George A. Dunn; title: Capitalism and freedom in the affluent society  / Kevin Guilfoy; title: There is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent : Mad men and the problem of meaning. Pete, Peggy, Don and the dialectic of remembering and forgetting / John Fritz; title: The existential void of Roger Sterling / Raymond Angelo Belliotti; title: Egoless egoists: the second-hand lives of Mad men / Robert White; title: An existential look at Mad men: Don Draper, advertising, and the promise of happiness / Ada Jaarsma; title: And you know what happiness is? Mad men and ethics. In on it: honesty, respect, and the ethics of advertising / Andreja Novakovic and Tyler Whitney; title: Creating the need for the new: It's not the wheel, it's the carousel / George Teschner and Gabrielle Teschner; title: You're looking in the wrong direction: Mad men and the ethics of advertising / Adam Barkman; title: Is Don Draper a good man? / Andrew Terjesen; title: Don Draper, on how to make oneself (whole again) / John Elia; title: No one else is saying the right thing about this: Mad men and social philosophy. And nobody understands that, but you do:  the Aristotelian ideal of friendship among the Mad men (and women) / Abigail E. Myers; title: Mad women: Aristotle, second wave feminism, and the women in Mad men / Ashley Jihee Barkman; title: We've got bigger problems to worry about than TV, O.K.? Mad men and race / Rod Carveth; title: New York City is a marvelous machine: Mad men and the power of social convention / James B. South.