Arrested Development and Philosophy_ They've Made a Huge Mistake - Kristopher G. Phillips [0]
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Family First
Chapter 1: Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?
The Life of Arrested Development Is Not Worth Living
Michael: “The Good One, the Moral One, the Fool.”
Gob: “They’re Laughing with Me, Michael, They’re Laughing with Me.”
Lindsay: “You Call Yourself an Environmentalist, Why Don’t You Go Club a Few Beavers?”
Tobias: “You Blow Hard.”
The Arresting of Happiness
Chapter 2: Kissing Cousins
The Argument from Naturalism
The Yuck Factor, and the Wisdom of Repugnance
Chapter 3: Freudian Arrested Development
Analysts and Therapists for the Bluths
Use Your Allusion: Freud
Perhaps an Attic Shall I Seek—The Unconscious
Freud’s Company Model
Prove It: Baiting the Unconscious
Shémale and Misreadings
Michael, Marta, Ann Other Freudian Slips
Motherboy, or the Oedipus Complex
Totem . . . : Boyfights
. . . and Taboo: Les Cousins Dangereux
Pop-Pop Gets Put on the Couch?
Chapter 4: Don’t Know Thyself
Gob Isn’t Just Deceiving Himself
Gob Plays His Roles
Be Yourself, Gob
Gob Makes Huge Mistakes in Good Faith
The Wisdom of Bad Faith
Part Two: A Business Model
Chapter 5: Dr. Fünke’s 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution
Happy Bluthday to You! The Bluth Family History
Marx and Alienation—Or, How to Never Succeed in Life While Really, Really Trying
A Case of “Light Treason”: A Man Who Would Do Anything to Make a Buck
Lucille and Gob
Meet the Fünkes
Michael
Don’t Buy This Book! Down with Capitalism!
Chapter 6: Family First
Product Safety: The Cornballer
Marketing Ethics: The Model Home
Treatment of Employees: The Banana Stand and Child Labor
Treatment of Employees: The Office and the Construction Site
International Business: “Light” Treason
Moral Development Arrested
Chapter 7: Bourgeois Bluths
Your Uncle Doesn’t Not Work Here Anymore: Marx, Labor, and Capital
It’s a Gaming Ship: Consumption and Leisure
There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand: Class Status and Performance
I Thought You Meant of the Things You Eat: the Bluths and the Politics of the Family
The Important Thing Is That You Guys Don’t Lose Focus on Yourselves: Narcissism as a Crisis of Bourgeois Identity
Part Three: Some Huge Mistakes
Chapter 8: What Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear
You There, Reading This Book . . .
Whatever I Do, I Won’t Quote Hegel
It Ain’t Easy Bein’ White
Stuff Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear; African-Americany Might Not Be Ready, Either . . .
An Ethics of Identity
Chapter 9: “I Just Blue Myself”
I Christen This Ship the Lucille
“I’ve Been a Horrible Mother.”
“Blueing” Oneself
The Hearer Doesn’t Just Lay There, Michael, If That’s What You Were Thinking
Chapter 10: To Bias Tobias
How to Solve a Problem Like Tobias
A Gender Enigma
The Man Inside Him
Mister Gay
Tobias, the Blow Hard
Denying the Man Inside Him
Gender Empowerment
Analraping Tobias
Tobias as the Ideal
Chapter 11: I’m Oscar.com
Bland (I mean, Ann), Marta, the Richters, Aristotle, and the Metaphysical Question
Oh My God . . . You’re Oscar. Dot com. [and George Sr. and the Metaphysical and Persistence Problems]
Larry (the Surrogate), Forget-Me-Nows, and Locke’s Criticism of Descartes
Thomas Reid, Gob, and the Problem of the “Forget-Me-Now”
Part Four: The One Where They Do Epistemology
Chapter 12: You Can’t Do Magic
Career Advice from Aristotle
The Virtues of an Illusionist
Why Gob Can’t Do Magic
The Magical World of Gob
Chapter 13: Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge?
I Didn’t Even Know That There Was a Cabin . . . He Wasn’t Taking Me To . . .
As You May or May Not Know [JTB] and I Have Hit a Bit of a Rough Patch . . .
First You Dump All Over It, Now You Want to Know How It’s [Solved] . . .
Chapter 14: Bunkers and Balls
Choosing Between