Kristopher G. Phillips, "Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've Made a Huge Mistake"
English | ISBN: 047057559X | 2011 | 272 pages | PDF | 1212 KB
English | ISBN: 047057559X | 2011 | 272 pages | PDF | 1212 KB
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,
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