South Park and Philosophy : Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating.
Title:
South Park and Philosophy : Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating.
Author:
Hanley, Richard.
ISBN:
9780812697742
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- Bullshit Alarms -- PART I Religion and Other Disabilities -- 1 May God Strike This Book Down! -- 2 Team America: World Pussies, or This Is Not a Picture of Mohammed -- 3 Infidel Liberation -- 4 Pussy Epistemology Is No Match for a Dick -- PART II Politics and Other Sacred Cows -- 5 Die, Hippie, Die! South Park Liberals -- 6 The Death Camp of Tolerance -- 7 Pious Hindsight: South Park's Hybrid Vigor -- 8 Drugs Are M'kay! -- 9 Nice Going, Fat-Ass! -- PART III Morality and Other Urges -- 10 White Jews Can't Jump -- 11 In Defense of Fags -- 12 Tomayto, Tomahto . . .or, What to Do When Life Sucks -- 13 Animal Protein, or What Killed Ms. Choksondick -- 14 Are We All Cartmans? -- PART IV Science, Logic, and Other Really, Really Clever Stuff -- 15 Time-Traveling Up Your Own Ass -- 16 Start the Evolution Without Me -- 17 Why Timmy Can't Read: Mr. Hat's Philosophy of Progressive Education -- 18 Stem Cells, Numb Nuts -- PART V Humor and Other Insertable Devices -- 19 Killing Kenny: Our Daily Dose of Death -- 20 Chef, Socrates, and the Sage of Love -- 21 I Learned Something Today: South Park and the State of the Golden Mean in the Twenty-First Century -- 22 Douching Your Truth Canal and Other Forms of Rational Hygiene -- Who Sucks Ass? -- Totally Inoffensive Index.
Abstract:
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's long-running Comedy Central hit cartoon South Park has been equally cheered and reviled for its edgy humor, poited satire of current events and celebrities, and all-around obnoxiousness. But is there more to Kyle, the lonely Jew, Timmy and the Crips, Cartman's bitchiness, Chef's inappropriate advice, and Kenny's continued violent deaths than meets the eye? This collection of essays affirms that possibility. Individual chapters take a sometimes witty, often provocative look at Is South Park a Libertarian Manifesto?", "That's So Gay!", and "Why Is Cartman Such an Asshole?". The writers apply classical philosophical analysis to this two-dimensional dystopia, whether in Paul Draper's Why Good Things Happen to Bad People The Problem of Evil in South Park" or Randall Auxier's Finding South Park on the Map: Officer Barbrady, Mayor McDaniel, and Chef in Plato's Republic." South Park and Philosophy presents new and thoughtful approaches to understanding this surprisingly meaningful show.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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