Monty Python and Philosophy Nudge Nudge, Think Think!

by Hardcastle, Gary L.; Reisch, George A.; Irwin, William

• ISBN13: 9780812695939
• ISBN10: 0812695933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and film. Monty Python and Philosophy extends that recognition into the world of philosophy. Fifteen experts in topics like mythology, Buddhism, feminism, logic, ethics, and the philosophy of science bring their expertise to bear on Python movies such as Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Flying Circus mainstays such as the Argument Clinic, the Dead Parrot Sketch, and, of course, the Bruces, the Pythons’ demented, song-filled vision of an Australian philosophy department. Monty Python and Philosophy follows the same hit format as the other titles in this popular series and explains all the philosophical concepts discussed in laymen’s terms.

Table of Contents

1. "What's All This Then?": The Introduction
GARY L. HARDCASTLE and GEORGE A. REISCH	1	(10)
Philosophical Aspects of Monty Python	11	(112)
2. "Life's a Piece of Shit": Heresy, Humanism and Heroism in Monty Python's Life of Brian
KEVIN SCHILBRACK	13	(12)
3. What Mr. Creosote Knows about Laughter
NOËL CARROLL	25	(12)
4. The Limits of Horatio's Philosophy
KURT SMITH	37	(16)
5. Why Is an Argument Clinic Less Silly Than an Abuse Clinic or a Contradiction Clinic?
HARRY BRIGHOUSE	53	(12)
6. A Very Naughty Boy: Getting Right with Brian
RANDALL E. AUXIER	65	(18)
7. Many Python and the Holy Grail: Philosophy, Gender, and Society
REBECCA HOUSEL	83	(10)
8. Against Transcendentalism: Mono Python's The Meaning of Life and Buddhism
STEPHEN ASMA	93	(18)
9. Is There Life After Mono Python's The Meaning of Life?
STEPHEN ERICKSON	111	(12)
Aspects of Pythonic Philosophy	123	(92)
10. God Forgive Us
STEPHEN FAISON	125	(16)
11. Monty Python and David Hume on Religion
JOHN HUSS	141	(12)
12. Madness in Monty Python's Flying Circus
MICHELLE SPINELLI	153	(8)
13. Monty Python and the Search for the Meaning of Life
PATRICK CROSKERY	161	(12)
14. Existentialism in Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre
EDWARD SLOWIK	173	(14)
15. "My Brain Hurts!"
ROSALIND CAREY	187	(14)
16. "Why Is a Philosopher Like a Python?"
JAMES TAYLOR	201	(14)
Pythonic Aspects of Philosophy	215	(62)
17. Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus
ALAN RICHARDSON	217	(14)
18. Monty Python's Utterly Devastating Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy
GEORGE A. REISCH	231	(12)
19. Word and Objection: How Monty Python Destroyed Modern Philosophy
BRUCE BALDWIN	243	(10)
20. My Years with Monty Python, or, What's So Funny about Language, Truth, and Analyticity?
GARY L. HARDCASTLE	253	(12)
21. Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python
GARY L. HARDCASTLE	265	(12)
Everyone Remembers Their First Time: About the Authors	277	(6)
What Was All That, Then? The Index	283