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The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can't Be Thunk

10 best books like The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can't Be Thunk (Michael Baur): The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism, Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems, Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind, Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter, Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy, Woody Allen and Philosophy: [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?], Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality, Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think!

The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
AuthorJason Holt
ISBN1405163143
An entertaining and insightful examination of the Emmy-award winning American satirical news show, broadcast on Comedy Central in the US, and (in an edited edition) on More4 in the UK and CNN International around the world. Includes discussion of both The Daily Show and its spin-off show, The Colbert...
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
AuthorSlavoj Žižek
ISBN1781686823
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work....
Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems
AuthorJames B. South
ISBN0470603011
A look at the philosophical underpinnings of the hit TV show, "Mad Men"With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pencil skirts, Mad Men is unquestionably one of the most stylish, sexy, and irresistible shows on television. But the series becomes even more absorbing...
Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant
AuthorKevin S. Decker
ISBN0812696492
Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical spirit of inquiry with the beloved television and film series to consider questions not only about...
Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind
AuthorJosef Steiff
ISBN0812697316
This entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don’t. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world – and human behavior – in different ways as well. Oh, sure, there have been countless detectives who...
Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter
AuthorRichard V. Greene
ISBN0812697170
What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?
Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a...
Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy
AuthorAaron Allen Schiller
ISBN0812696611
At the head of The Colbert Report, one of the most popular shows on television, Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the particularly rich set of issues and emotions Colbert...
Woody Allen and Philosophy: [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?]
AuthorMark T. Conard
ISBN0812694538
Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films? And why should anyone care?
Focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output, these essays explore the philosophical undertones...
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
AuthorMark D. White
ISBN0470482184
The first look at the philosophy behind the Iron Man comics and movies, timed for the release of Iron Man 2 in March 2010 On the surface, Iron Man appears to be a straightforward superhero, another rich guy fighting crime with fancy gadgets. But beneath the shiny armor and flashy technology lies Tony Stark,...
Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think!
AuthorGary L. Hardcastle
ISBN0812695933
From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly...
The Philosophy of the X-Files
AuthorDean A. Kowalski
ISBN0813124549
From its first appearance in 1993, The X-Files has attracted millions of viewers interested in the paranormal investigations of intuitionist and belief-driven Fox Mulder and his partner, Dana Scully, the "consummate scientist" and skeptic. Addressing questions of trust and authority that plague...
The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
ISBN0521016886
Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigor, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche...
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview
AuthorGregory Bassham
ISBN0812695887
The Chronicles of Narnia series has entertained millions of readers, both children and adults, since the appearance of the first book in 1950. Here, scholars turn the lens of philosophy on these timeless tales. Engagingly written for a lay audience, these essays consider a wealth of topics centered...
More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded
AuthorWilliam Irwin
ISBN0812695720
This follow-up to the hugely successful The Matrix and Philosophy is broken down into seven "scenes" that explore some of the deeper issues in the movie series. Scene one examines the issues of fate, fortune, causation, and determinism in the trilogy. Scene two asks readers to consider the concept...
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives
AuthorFrançois Dosse
ISBN0231145608
In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced...
Big Lebowski Philosophy
AuthorPeter S. Fosl
ISBN1118074564
Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche,...
Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
AuthorMerold Westphal
ISBN0801031478
In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical "contamination," he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church....
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
AuthorFredric Jameson
ISBN1859841821
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the...
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
AuthorJohn D. Caputo
ISBN0253211123
"Caputo's book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." --Edith Wyschogrod

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Anatheism: Returning to God After God
AuthorRichard Kearney
ISBN0231147880
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between...
Hegel
AuthorCharles Taylor
ISBN0521291992
The Enlightenment Context
These thinkers (Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes) held to an atomistic view of man and society. They rejected the medieval worldview of "final causes" (4). The world was no longer seen as "symbol manifesting the rhythm of the divine" (5).

Modernity's epistemology...
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
AuthorJohn P. Muller
ISBN0801832934
The Purloined Poe is at once astonishing and frustrating. It is incredible to read Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and then watch how the story unfolds in the hands of critics like psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. I've gone through the experience of reading the short...
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