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Kristopher G. Phillips & J. Jeremy Wisnewski 
Arrested Development and Philosophy 
They’ve Made a Huge Mistake

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY

Is George Michael’s crush on his cousin unnatural?
Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide her job?
Is Gob better off living his life in bad faith?
What inferences can we draw from Tobias’s double-entendres?
Are the pictures really of bunkers or balls?

The Bluth family’s faults, foibles, and character flaws are so excruciatingly familiar that we squirm in painful recognition of the outrageous impulses that we all have but would never act on. The Bluths seem utterly unaware of the gaping distance between their behavior and accepted social norms. Lurking behind this craziness are large moral and philosophical issues to be explored. From Plato to Aristotle, from Descartes to Marx, Arrested Development and Philosophy draws from great philosophical minds to shed new light on the show’s key questions and captivating themes, including the nature of self-knowledge and happiness, business ethics and capitalist alienation, social class, the role of error in character development, and much more.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of
the Bluth Company ix

INTRODUCTION 1

Kristopher Phillips

PART ONE FAMILY FIRST

1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness,
Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7

Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman

2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor
23

Deborah R. Barnbaum

3 Freudian Arrested Development 33

Tim Jung

4 Don’t Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46

Daniel P. Malloy

PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL

5 Dr. Fünke’s 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation
Solution 61

Jeff Ewing

6 Family First: How Not to Run a Business 73

Brett Gaul

7 Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class Status
85

Rachel Mc Kinney

PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES

8 What Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear: Social Identity in
Arrested Development 99

J. Jeremy Wisnewski

9 ‚I Just Blue Myself‘: The Use and Abuse of Language in
Arrested Development 111

M. E. Verrochi

10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested
Development 123

Darci Doll

11 I’m Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in
Arrested Development 136

Kristopher Phillips

PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY

12 You Can’t Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists‘ Craft
151

Michael Cholbi

13 Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge? 162

Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips

14 Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development,
Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation
172

Michael Da Silva

PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED

15 No Touching! George Sr.’s Brush with Treason 185

Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco

16 ‚I’ve Made a Huge Mistake‘: George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the
Role of Error in Character Development 197

Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew
Holmes

17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210

Erin Fay and Willie Young

PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . .

18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything:
Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning
227

Tyler Shores

CONTRIBUTORS: Banana Stand Employee Roster 241

INDEX: Banana Stand Inventory 247

Über den Autor

KRISTOPHER G. PHILLIPS is a Ph D candidate (ABD) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.

J. JEREMY WISNEWSKI is an associate professor of philosophy at Hartwick College. He is the editor of Family Guy and Philosophy, The Office and Philosophy, and 30 Rock and Philosophy, and coeditor of X-Men and Philosophy and Twilight and Philosophy.

WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles including House and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.

To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 272 ● ISBN 9781118146095 ● Dateigröße 2.8 MB ● Herausgeber Kristopher G. Phillips & J. Jeremy Wisnewski ● Verlag John Wiley & Sons ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2354126 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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