Stephen Colbert and Philosophy I Am Philosophy (And So Can You!)

by Schiller, Aaron Allen

• ISBN13: 9780812696615
• ISBN10: 0812696611
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-09
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

Stephen T. Colbert, Ph.D., D.S.M., D.F.A., is an inspiration to billions of Americans. What other man could have won both an Olympic gold medal and the Nobel Peace Prize?

Author Biography

Aaron Allen Schiller is a baseball fan, cyclist, longboarder, cat owner, and home brewer. He has reportedly told some of his associates he "teaches philosophy" at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Philosophy for Heroes	p. xi
The Word: First Principles of Colbertian Philosophy	p. 1
Colbert, Truthiness, and Thinking from the Gut	p. 3
Formidable Opponent and the Necessity of Moral Doubt	p. 19
Things that Make You Go "What?"	p. 29
Philosophy at Play	p. 51
No Need for the Wordinistas at Webster's	p. 63
The ThreatDown: Truthiness	p. 75
Truth, Truthiness, and Bullshit for the American Voter	p. 77
Truthiness of the Appearances	p. 95
"The Word": Fearless Speech and the Politics of Language	p. 115
Philosophy in the Age of Truthiness	p. 131
Better Know a Philosopher	p. 143
Is Stephen Colbert America's Socrates?	p. 145
Why Is Stephen Colbert So Funny?	p. 163
Where Id Was, There Stephen Colbert Shall Be!	p. 179
Why Mr. Colbert Should Be President	p. 195
What Colbert Tells Us about Being America	p. 205
Colorblindness and Black Friends in Stephen Colbert's America	p. 207
The Wealth of Colbert Nations	p. 223
Freedom Isn't Free, but Freem Is	p. 245
Take the Ishihara Race Test: See if You Are Colorblind Like Stephen!	p. 259
Citizens of the Colbert Nation	p. 263
Factinista's Choice	p. 269
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