Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato

by Mark Rowlands

Everything I Know I Learned From TV uses characters we all know and love and their TV worlds to explain the great questions of philosophy. The only qualifications you need to join in are ownership of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091898358
• ISBN13: 9780091898359
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun and thought-provoking

A great companion to his big screen sci-fi examples in "The Philosopher at the end of the universe", Mark Rowlands turns his eye to the small screen to illustrate the inherent conflict between the 4 strands that constitute the fractured modern worldview--individualism, relativism, voluntarism and instrumentalism. Themed chapters are culled from Buffy, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Friends, 24, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Frasier. And no worries, it makes a good read even if you've never seen some of these shows.