The Simpsons and Philosophy: Get Smarter with the World's Most Famous TV Family

The Simpsons and Philosophy: Getting smarter with the most famous television family in the world , often just The Simpsons and Philosophy (Original title The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! Of Homer , 2001) is a non-fiction book , published in German in 2007, by William Irwin, Mark T. Conrad, and Aeon J. Skoble. It covers philosophical topics using examples from the animated series The Simpsons . It was sold over 200,000 times in the original language by 2004. The book has also been translated into other languages: Les Simpson: les secrets de la plus célèbre famille d'Amérique (French, 2010); Simpsonlar ve felsefe (Turkish, 2003); Los Simpson y la filosofía (Spanish, 2009); Simpsonovi a filozofie: Homer myslitel (Czech, 2010).

content

In the book, the authors, who at the time of writing were active as philosophy lecturers in American universities, explain various philosophical topics in 18 essays using examples from the cartoon series. So z. B. associated the philosophy of Nietzsche with the behavior of Bart Simpson .

Table of contents of the English edition

• Part 1: The characters
• Raja Halwani: Homer and Aristotle
• Aeon J. Skoble: Lisa and American anti-intellectualism
• Eric Bronson: Why Maggie matters: sounds of silence, East and West
• Gerald J. Erion, Joseph A. Zeccardi: Marge's moral motivation
• Mark T. Conard: Thus spake Bart: on Nietzsche and the virtues of being bad
• Part 2 Simpsonian themes
• William Irwin , JR Lombardo: The Simpsons and allusion: "worst essay ever"
• Deborah Knight: Popular parody: The Simpsons meets the crime film
• Carl Matheson: The Simpsons, hyper-irony, and the meaning of life
• Dale E. Snow, James J. Snow: Simpsonian sexual politics
• Part 3 I didn't do it: ethics and The Simpsons
• James Lawler: The moral world of the Simpson family: a Kantian perspective
• Paul A. Cantor , The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family
• Jason Holt: Springfield hypocrisy
• Daniel Barwick: Enjoying the so-called "iced cream": Mr. Burns, satan, and happiness
• David Vessey: Hey-diddily-ho, neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and neighborly love
• Jennifer L. McMahon: The function of fiction: the heuristic value of Homer
• Part 4 The Simpsons and the philosophers
• James M. Wallace: A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield
• David LG Arnold: "And the rest writes itself": Roland Barthes watches The Simpsons
• Kelly Dean Jolley: What Bart calls thinking

expenditure

• The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Homer . Open Court, Chicago 2001, ISBN 0-8126-9433-3 ( WorldCat entry )
  • The Simpsons and Philosophy. Get smarter with the world's most famous television family . From the American. by Nikolaus de Palézieux. Tropen, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-932170-97-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Bernstein: Philosophy Hitches a Ride With, The Sopranos' . In: The New York Times , April 13, 2004. 
2. ^ Translations according to the information in WorldCat