Courtland Lewis
Auteur de Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Courtland Lewis
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Lewis, Courtland
- Autres noms
- Lewis, David Court
Lewis, Court D. - Date de naissance
- 1977-03-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- Études
- University of Tennessee
University of Southern Mississippi
Jones County Junior College - Professions
- philosopher
teacher
author - Organisations
- University of Tennessee
Pellissippi State Community College
Owensboro Community and Technical College
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 303
- Popularité
- #77,624
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 2
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Philosophers in Space
Futurama and Philosophy is the 78th entry into the “…and Philosophy” series. It started many years ago with “Seinfeld in Philosophy” and has ballooned from there covering a wide range of topics from Baseball, Jeopardy, Lady Gaga, to Futurama, Batman, Marvel Movies / Marvel Universe, to Curb Your Enthusiasm and much much more.
I do enjoy the series for what it is. Each book is a collection of essays looking at their particular topic (in this case Futurama) through the lens of philosophy. The articles are hit or miss, just as the writers themselves are. But overall its pretty entertaining / interesting stuff.
We have previously covered the Curb Your Enthusiasm volume here: Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy Book Review.
If you are looking for more philosophy book reviews, you can find that we have covered quite a bit – from The Philosophy of Snoopy to On Bullshit. (I’ll link them at the end of the article in a list to make it easier.)
As I said about this type of book – the essays can be hit or miss. Luckily this edition is more hit than miss. They do a good job of doing a deep dive into the characters, some of the settings and the make up of the Futurama universe, as well as things like robot ethics, freedom, “sexlexia”, and much more.
The Zapp Brannigan “sexlexia” article while being somewhat interesting discussing the inadequacies of each of the characters when it comes to sex, doesn’t really offer a whole lot of philosophical insight. And this kind of brings to light how these “… and Philosophy” books kind of work. They tend to either be more heavily bent on discussing the particular matter (in this case Futurama) and typically attempting to be humorous, or they come across too heavily focused on the philosophy and lose sight of the source material to a degree. I feel like its an unfortunate ‘nature of the beast’ as far as these collections go. As much as I love philosophy and love Futurama or Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm or whatever the particular book is about, its too hard to truly weave source material with philosophy and keep it engaging for both crowds.
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Read more here: https://thebeerthrillers.com/2023/07/24/book-review-futurama-and-philosophy-edit...… (plus d'informations)