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LOUIS C.K. AND PHILOSOPHY
YOU DON'T GET TO BE BORED |
| By: |
Mark Ralkowski (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0812699068 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780812699067 |
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| Publisher: |
OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO ,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
5 April, 2016 |
| Series: |
Popular Culture and Philosophy 99 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Synopsis: |
Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. ? the philosopher-king of comedy," and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material.Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of Louis C.K. from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The chapters draw upon C.K.'s standup comedy, the show Louie, and C.K.'s other writings.One writer looks at the different meanings of C.K.'s statement, ? You're gonna be dead way longer than you were alive." One chapter shows the affinity of C.K.'s ? sick of living this bullshit life" with Kierkegaard's ? sickness unto death." Another pursues Louis's thought that we may by our lack of moral concern ? live a really evil life without thinking about it."C.K.'s insistence that ? things that are not can't be" points to the philosophical problem of nothingness in relation to being. His religion is ? apathetic agnostic," conveyed in his thought experiment that God began work in 1982. Louis's argument that you can have the kind of body you want if you make yourself want a disgusting, shitty body, is the Stoic ethics of Epictetus. And, as C.K. has shown in so many ways, the fact that we're soon going to die has its funny side. |
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US |
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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. |
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