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veröffentlicht: | Chicago : Open Court, 2012. ©2012. |
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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series
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Umfang: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
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ISBN: |
9780812697902
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Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Koepsell, David R., Breaking Bad and Philosophy, Chicago : Open Court,c2012
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Kollektion: | E-Books adlr |
Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime. In defiance of the tradition that viewers demand a TV character who never changes, Breaking Bad is all about the process of change, with each scene carrying forward the morphing of Walter White into the terrible Heisenberg. Can a person be transformed as the result of a few key life choices? Does everyone have the potential to be a ruthless criminal? How will we respond to the knowledge that we will be dead in six months? Is human life subject to laws as remorseless as chemical equations? When does injustice validate brutal retaliation? Why are drug addicts unsuitable for operating the illegal drug business? How can TV viewers remain loyal to a series where the hero becomes the villain? Does Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty rule our destinies? In Breaking Bad and Philosophy, a hand-picked squad of professional thinkers investigate the crimes of Walter White, showing how this story relates to the major themes of philosophy and the major life decisions facing all of us. |
Cover Popular Culture and Philosophy Title Page Copyright Contents A Fine Meth We've Gotten Into Analyze This 1. Walt's Rap Sheet 2. Heisenberg's Uncertain Confession 3. Was Skyler's Intervention Ethical? Hell, It Shouldn't Even Be Legal! Equations Must Balance 4. Finding Happiness in a Black Hat 5. Hurtling towards Death 6. Macbeth on Ice There's Meth in My Madness 7. Walter White's Will to Power 8. Better than Human Nothing Here But Chemistry 9. The Riddle of Godfather Gus 10. If Walt's Breaking Bad, Maybe We Are Too 11. I Appreciate the Strategy Now You're Cooking 12. What's So Bad about Meth? 13. It's Arbitrary? 14. Does Cooking Make Walt a Bad Guy? Free Radicals 15. Been through the Desert on a Horse with No Name 16. You're Supposed to Be a Scientist 17. Breaking Bonds Pink, White, and Blue 18. Walter White's American Vice 19. Meth, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Spontaneous Reactions The Bad Elements Index. |