TV-philosophy : how TV series change our thinking /
This is the first book to explore the hold of television series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture throughout the world is transformative in its effects on the activity of philosophy in everyda...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Exeter :
University of Exeter Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | TV-philosophy
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| Summary: | This is the first book to explore the hold of television series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture throughout the world is transformative in its effects on the activity of philosophy in everyday life. Drawing on Stanley Cavell's work on film and ordinary experience, Laugier contends that we are deeply affected by the television series we watch, and by the ways they become interconnected with our daily lives. The philosophical thinking embodied in television series empowers individuals in their capacity to experience, understand and appropriate elements of the world, and to educate themselves. Through our relationships with such series, we develop our own tastes and competencies, which are constitutive of our distinct experience of life. 'Series-philosophy' is thus a democratizing force. It also offers us a new ethics, for morality can be found not in general rules and abstract principles but in the narrative texture of characters in everyday situations facing particular ethical problems, and with whom we form attachments that result in our moral education, in sometimes surprising ways. |
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| Physical Description: | 113 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, serigaphy, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 1804130214 9781804130216 |