Adventure Time and Philosophy.
Title:
Adventure Time and Philosophy.
Author:
Michaud, Nicolas.
ISBN:
9780812698862
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- A Few Short Graybles -- I. Nasty, Brutish, and Sweet -- 1. The Finn-losophy of Adventure Time by John V. Karavitis -- 2. Poetical! The Art-Science Wars in Ooo by Daniel Leonard -- 3. Power and Parenthood in the Land of Ooo by David Caballeros -- 4. Who Governs Ooo? by Ben Gale and Adam Barkman -- 5. Should Simon Have Saved Marceline? by Matthew Montoya -- 6. Games Vampires Play by Trip McCrossin -- II. Glob Said the Word and It Was "Cabbage!" -- 7. Sude. Stop. Saying. All This. Crazy. Nonsense. by Nicolas Michaud -- 8. Ice King Blues by Greg Littmann -- 9. The Owl and the One-Armed Boy by Liam Miller -- 10. Did Prismo Create the Best Possible World? by Matthew Montoya -- 11. Oh God, Where the Glob Art Thou? by Poom Namvol -- III. Life Is But a Croak Dream -- 12. The Paradox of Horror and the Ocean of Fear by Michael J. Muniz -- 13. Play Time? Interpretation Time! by Marty Jones -- 14. If a Tree Fort Falls in a Forest. . . by Robert Arp -- 15. What's Time Anyhoo? by Mary Green and Ronald S. Green -- 16. Ooo, Who's Dreaming? by Christopher Ketcham -- IV. What Are You? -- 17. When I Don't Remember You by Nicolas Michaud -- 18. When My Gameboy Became Self-Aware by David Degginger -- 19. Imagined Worlds and Real Lessons by Daniel Vella -- 20. A Buff Baby Who Can Puncha Yo' Buns by M. Blankier -- 21. Become Unplugged by Christopher Ketcham -- V. For Righteous Eyes Only -- 22. Finn's No Hero! by Scott Forest Aikin -- 23. How to Be a Hero by Greg Littmann -- 24. Our Real-Life Enchiridions by Michael J. Muniz -- 25. I Want to Be Your Hero, Maybe! by Rakel Blondal Svinsdottir -- 26. Our Heroes! by Trip McCrossin -- References -- Our Adventurous Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. The authors have come together to understand and explore one of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves. Where Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, this book screws open our cranial lids, mucks about in the mess that is our heads, and attempts to come to some answers about the nature of reality. Adventure Time challenges everything we know about life, meaning, heroism, and even burritos. And it's time to give the show some serious thought. Adventure Time and Philosophy is a chance to put down your broadsword, put your exhausted monster-slaying feet up, and try to figure out why you spend your time rescuing people in distress and fighting for justice. What is justice anyway? If you don't happen to have your pocket edition of the Enchiridion on hand, and Billy the Hero *wicked guitar solo* hasn't been returning your calls, pick up Adventure Time and Philosophy and learn what it means to be a real hero! The authors of the chapters will prove that Adventure Time is much more than a cartoon, it's a way of life. . . . It's also the future!-a post-apocalyptic future 10,000 years after the Great Mushroom War, actually. Who better to have as companions than Finn and Jake when taking on Plato, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard or encountering the Slime Princess, the Ice King, and Marceline the Vampire Queen. In a review of the show in Entertainment Weekly, Darren Franich characterized Adventure Time as a hybrid sci-fi/fantasy/horror/musical/fairy tale, with echoes of Calvin and Hobbes, Hayao Miyazaki, Final Fantasy, Richard Linklater, Where the Wild Things Are, and the music video you made with your high school garage band." This book is filled with chapters written by a colorful cast of characters who enlighten us
about the profound and life-affirming spiritual subtext and dark comedic elements of an awesomely fantastic 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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