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Arrested Development and Philosophy
They've Made a Huge Mistake
William Irwin (Series edited by), W Irwin (Author), Kristopher G. Phillips (Edited by), J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Edited by)
9780470575598, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2011
272 pages
23.1 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.376 kg
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY Is George Michael’s crush on his cousin unnatural? 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, Arrested Development and Philosophy draws from great philosophical minds to shed new light on the show’s key questions and captivating themes, including the nature of self-knowledge and happiness, business ethics and capitalist alienation, social class, the role of error in character development, and much more.
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?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: And Now a Few Words from the New CEOs of the Bluth Company ix INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE FAMILY FIRST 1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7 2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor 23 3 Freudian Arrested Development 33 4 Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46 PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL 5 Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution 61 6 Family First: How Not to Run a Business 73 7 Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class Status 85 PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES 8 What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in Arrested Development 99 9 "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in Arrested Development 111 10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested Development 123 11 I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in Arrested Development 136 PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY 12 You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft 151 13 Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge? 162 14 Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development, Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation 172 PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED 15 No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason 185 16 "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development 197 17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210 PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . . 18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning 227 CONTRIBUTORS: Banana Stand Employee Roster 241 INDEX: Banana Stand Inventory 247
Kristopher Phillips
Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman
Deborah R. Barnbaum
Tim Jung
Daniel P. Malloy
Jeff Ewing
Brett Gaul
Rachel McKinney
J. Jeremy Wisnewski
M. E. Verrochi
Darci Doll
Kristopher Phillips
Michael Cholbi
Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips
Michael Da Silva
Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco
Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew Holmes
Erin Fay and Willie Young
Tyler Shores
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
