Arrested Development and Philosophy_ They've Made a Huge Mistake - Kristopher G. Phillips [110]
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 Wayne Jarvis and Barry Zuckerkorn
The Lenses of Wayne Jarvis, Barry Zuckerkorn, and George Michael Bluth
Q: War! What Is It Good For?! A: Well, Certainly Not Buster Bluth
How to Choose Between Bunkers and Balls
Who Knows What Balls Look Like?
In the Absence of Opie (Sorry, Ron)
Part Five: Solid As Iraq: Politics and Ethics Arrested
Chapter 15: No Touching! George Sr.’s Brush with Treason
“Do You Know How They Punish Treason?”—First Time . . .—“I’ve Never Heard of a Second!”
A Company Whose Founder May Be on Trial for Treason: The Case Against George Sr.
“He’s Guilty, Michael, of Medium to Heavy Treason”: The Degrees of Treason
“We Do Need to Stick Together Like a Family on This”: Why Treason Is Wrong
“I’ve Made a Huge Mistake”
Chapter 16: “I’ve Made a Huge Mistake”
“And I’m Not Afraid to Make Mistakes. Or Have You Forgotten to Read This . . .”
“Nobody Makes a Fool out of Our Family without My Help.”
“. . . She Keeps Saying That God Is Going to Show Me a Sign. The . . . Something of My Ways. Wisdom?”
Chapter 17: The Comedy of Contradiction
Seemingly Deceptive: Lindsay’s Lies
A Jealous Gob
Think of the Children
“I’m Not Sure if My Ethics Teacher Would Love It if I Cheated on My Essay”
Going Both Ways
Beyond the Never-Nude: Nietzsche’s Man of the Future
Contradiction and the Form of Comedy: There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand
Part Six: And On The Epilogue . . .
Chapter 18: And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything
Narrating the Bluths: “A Clear-Cut Situation with the Promise of Comedy”
“And That’s Why You Always Leave a Note”: What Lessons Can We Learn From Our Narratives?
“And That’s How You Narrate a Story”—What We Tell, What We Are
Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
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