30 Rock and Philosophy / The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series (ePub)

Acknowledgments: Thanks for Helping Us Go to There. Introduction: Platonic Fantasies and Tina Fey-losophy. PART ONE What Would Oprah Do? Ethics and the Good Life at 30 Rock. 1 Being Kenneth: Some Moral Lessons (P Sue Dohnimm). 2 Sour Lemon: Liz's Workaholism and the Meaning of Life (Jeffrey A Hinzmann). 3 Friendship on 30 Rock: What a Greek Philosopher Can Teach us about Companionship (Daniel Yim). 4 A Confucian-Aristotelian Critique of 30 Rock's 'Semi-Virtuous Path' (Adam Barkman). PART TWO The Girlie Show: Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation at 30 Rock. 5 Race at the Rock: Race Cards, White Myths, and Postracial America (J Jeremy Wisnewski). 6 Getting Gay: How 30 Rock Helps Us Understand Sexuality (J Jeremy Wisnewski). 7 And the Followship Award Goes to...Third Wave Feminism? (Ashley Barkman). PART THREE Dealbreaker!: Corporations, Professions, and Politics. 8 Medicine's Not a Science: Dr Leo Spaceman and the Role of the Incompetent Professional in Today's America (Kevin S Decker). 9 Is There a Difference between East Coast Television and Microwave Ovens?: Moral Questions about Corporate Management (Andrew Terjesen). 10 The Emancipation Corporation: Loving and Loathing the Shinehardt Wigs of the World (Nick Michaud). 11 Liz and Jack Can't Be Friends!: Communitarianism, Libertarianism, and Politics at 30 Rock (Nicholas Michaud). PART FOUR: Mind Grapes (To Nourish Your Thinking). 12 "The Bubble," the Cave and Samsara: Being Deluded at 30 Rock (Adam Barkman). 13 Of Cookie Jars and CEOs: Time and Self on 30 Rock (Tyler Shores). 14 One City's Cheese-Curl Addict Is Another City's Model: A Question of Taste (Michael Da Silva and Melina Found). 15 "I'm Straight Up Mentally Ill": Tracy Jordan and True, Justified Belief (Robert Arp). 16 Performing at 30 Rock (and Everywhere Else) (Marc E Shaw). Appendix 1: Frank's Hat Store. Appendix 2: The Wisdom of the Page: Meet Kenneth Ellen Parcell. Contributors: Cast Members of 30 Rock and Philosophy. Index: Shinehardt Wig Company

J. JEREMY WISNEWSKI is an associate professor of philosophy
at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He coedited X-Men and
Philosophy and Twilight and Philosophy and edited
Family Guy and Philosophy and The Office and
Philosophy.

WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's
College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy
and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling
The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles
including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and
Mad Men and Philosophy.

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