Open Court imprint: 208 books
Baseball and Philosophy
Thinking Outside the Batter's Box
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most...
Adventure Time and Philosophy
The Handbook for Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. The authors have come together to understand and explore one of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves. Where Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, this...
Tool-Being
Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy.
Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presence-at-hand...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Be warned-in your journey through this volume you will encounter many true stories. Some will make you laugh, others could make you cry, and all are enough to thoroughly embarrass the authors. These stories would never be allowed to see the light of day if they did not open the door to important truths...
Harley-Davidson and Philosophy
Full-Throttle Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
It’s no wonder descriptions of riding often resemble the words of Asian mystics and Jedi knights: The ride causes your senses to open completely. You experience only the present, the now. Readers who prefer revving a Harley to meditating in a Zen garden know that biking is just as contemplative...
The X-Files and Philosophy
The Truth Is in Here
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In The X-Files and Philosophy, thirty-six fearless philosophers seek for the truth which is out there, in here, at least somewhere, or (as the postmodernists claim) nowhere. One big issue is whether the weird and unexplained happenings, including the existence of entities unknown to traditional science,...
The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy
Hungry for More
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In The Walking Dead, human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion-all the ultimate questions of human existence are posed afresh...
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy
Badass or Boyscout?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows us the better way to fight crime? Who is a morally better person? Whose actions lead to the better outcomes?
Superman vs. Batman and Philosophy tries to...
Mr. Robot and Philosophy
Beyond Good and Evil Corp
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Philosophers shine a light on the dark world of the hacker underground, corporate cybersecurity, and injustice in contemporary capitalist society as portrayed in the popular pessimistic techno-thriller, Mr. Robot.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A rallying call for all those who have been disquieted or disgusted by the excesses of artistic modernism. This is a collection of ten provocative essays on the arts, by writers of varied orientations who share a skepticism about the exaggerated role of modernism and the successive avant-gardes in...
Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy
Raiding the Temple of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is the most exciting event in popular culture since the invention of the motion picture.”
Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy presents twenty-one...
Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy
Darkness on the Edge of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If "love is a banquet at which we feed," Bruce Springsteen has provided much food for thought. In this collection of metaphysical probes, a gang of E-street philosophers will undress Bruce's deeper mysteries like...
Bob Dylan and Philosophy
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial...
Listening to the Future
The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further.
"Written with the...