"Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded" a Must Read for Fans.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Should you feel guilty about watching "Family Guy?" What's so funny about dysfunctional families? Where's the line between parody and nonsense? These are just a few of the many questions asked and answered in, "Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded", published by Wiley-Blackwell on September 10, 2007. Consisting of seventeen chapters by acclaimed American philosophers, these Stewie-loving philosophers use the low-brow, potty-mouthed, cartoon humor of a popular television program to illustrate philosophy- without getting too high-brow for their (or your) own good. "People today tend to take themselves and things too seriously," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr. J Noun 1. Dr. J - United States basketball forward (born in 1950) Erving, Julius Erving, Julius Winfield Erving . Jeremy Wisnewski, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College History Hartwick Seminary was founded in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister from Germany, who led several mission congregations of early settlers along the Hudson River and the Mohawk River in what is now upstate New York. , Oneonta, NY. "This show provides an escape, a release; it's full of legitimate insights that get us to laugh at things that might surprise us. It defies expectations." "This book is about the most misunderstood show on television," says Dr. Wisnewski. "It's philosophically deep but makes philosophical points in ways that make you laugh, that are easily accepted by the average Joe. This book will help the reader appreciate the show even more, and of course laughing all the way." Chapters such as "Quagmire: Virtue and Perversity per·ver·si·ty n. pl. per·ver·si·ties 1. The quality or state of being perverse. 2. An instance of being perverse. Noun 1. "; "Lois: Portrait of a Mother"; and "Let Us Now Praise Clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. Men: Peter Griffin and Philosophy", are sure to be a hit with everyone. With its debut in January 1999, Family Guy was almost immediately accused of ripping off The Simpsons. In the chapter, "'The Simpsons' Already Did It! This Show is a Freakin Rip-off!", Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin, of Boston University, proceed by way of discussion of rip-off, art, parody, satire, plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. , and postmodernism to dispel the claim. They argue "Animation is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing The Honeymooners, we wouldn't have The Flintstones...Family Guy is a postmodern work of art that intentionally tears down the distinctions between appearance and reality, original and copy, and uses the world of television to push this dissolution." After periodic cancellations, Fox resumed the show due to an unprecedented increase in DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. sales. The editorial team of "Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded" show how this cartoon program can teach us about ethics, ego, hypocrisy, death, life after death, and breaking wind. They do it in a way that exemplifies a tenet of the Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy and PopCulture series: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and a healthy helping of popular culture clears the cobwebs cob·web n. 1. a. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey. b. A single thread spun by a spider. 2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness. 3. from Kant. ABOUT THE EDITOR J. Jeremy Wisnewski is Assistant Professor at Hartwick College. He is the author of Putting it into Words: Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry, forthcoming, 2007 and The Politics of Agency: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology, forthcoming 2008. He is also the editor of The Office and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2008) |
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