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Beginning with the assumption that philosophy - the Greek love of wisdom - is alive and well in American culture, this work traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation

Beginning with the assumption that philosophy - the Greek love of wisdom - is alive and well in American culture, this work traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Inheritance, Teaching, and the Insane Angels of American Culture: Our Cultural Invisibility -- One. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism -- Two. Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering: A Job Description -- Three. Wilderness as Philosophical Home -- Four. Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom -- Five. Wildness as Political Act -- Six. ''After All, He's Just a Man'' -- Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert -- Eight. John Dewey's Sensible Mysticism -- Nine. ''Born to Run'' -- Ten. Philosophy as Teaching -- Eleven. Learning and Teaching -- Twelve. Emerson's Platonizing of American Thought -- Thirteen. American Loss in Cavell's Emerson -- Fourteen. Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous Angels of Hope and Loss -- Fifteen. Pragmatic Intellectuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature in the field

Christos Yannaras is one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of recent times. The work of Yannaras is virtually synonymous with a turn or renaissance of Orthodox philosophy and theology, initially within Greece, but as the present volume confirms, well beyond it. His work engages not only with issues of philosophy and theology, but also takes in wider questions of culture and politics. With contributions from established and new scholars, the book is divided into three sections, which correspond to the main directions that Christos Yannaras has followed – philosophy, theology, and culture – and reflects on the ways in which Yannaras has engaged and influenced thought across these fields, in addition to themes including ecclesiology, tradition, identity, and ethics. This volume facilitates the dialogue between the thought of Yannaras, which is expressed locally yet is relevant globally, and Western Christian thinkers. It will be of great interest to scholars of Orthodox and Eastern Christian theology and philosophy, as well as theology more widely.

The Good Place as Philosophy: Moral Adventures in the Afterlife.-Twilight Zone as Philosophy 101 -- Star Trek as Philosophy: Spock as Stoic Sage -- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Philosophy: Gene Roddenberry's Argument for Humanism -- Battlestar Galactica as Philosophy: Breaking the Biopolitical Cycle -- Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse -- Doctor Who as Philosophy: Four-Dimensionalism and Time Travel -- Breaking Bad as Philosophy -- The Handmaid's Tale as Philosophy: Autonomy and Reproductive Freedom -- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as Philosophy: Children as Philosophers -- Futurama as Philosophy: Wisdom from the Ignorance of a Delivery Boy -- Firefly as Philosophy: Social Contracts, Political Dissent, and Virtuous Communities -- Arrested Development as Philosophy: Family First? What We Owe Our Parents -- The Doctor as Philosopher: The Collectivist-Realist Pacificism ofthe Doctor and the Quest for Social Justice. .

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