| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 92 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 92.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This collection of 18 chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black. The show and the book that inspired it both dramatically highlight the troubling, stressful situation of millions of incarcerated Americans. How do the show's shower scenes shed light on the classical mind-body problem? How can we make our lives meaningful when our options are curtailed by authority? What does it mean to manipulate someone, and why is it bad? What can we learn about human beliefs from Pennsatucky's notion of the gay agenda? Is Litchfield Prison a preparation for life outside -- or just a scale model of life outside? What could the governors of Litchfield learn from Jeremy Bentham and his panopticon? How is it that even in prison we find ourselves condemned to be free? Why is one of the worst things about prison being forced to see who and what we really are? It so happens that life in prison is overfull of philosophical implications. Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy stays close to the characters and scenes of the TV show, applying insights from ethics, existentialism, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. |
| Contents |
Orange Is the New Black Can Change Your Life / Christopher Hoyt -- Should We Give a Ship? / Rachel Robison-Greene -- Nietzsche and a Trans Woman Walk into a Prison / Christina A. DiEdoardo, Esq. -- It's Different but the Same / Rod Carveth -- Prison Is Hell / Christopher Ketcham -- Hell Is Other People but Mostly You Too / Courtney Neal -- Prison as Rehab? Foucault Says No, No, No / Jeffrey E. Stephenson and Sara Waller -- Who's Messing with Your Mind? / Myisha Cherry -- Take a Break from Your Values / Rachel Robison-Greene -- You're Not Religious, Okay / Seth M. Walker -- I Am I, Crazy Eyes / Chelsi Barnard Archibald -- You Got Them TV Titties / Stephen Felder -- The Chicken and the Egg-sistential Crisis / Leigh Duffy -- What Friends Are For / Charlene Elsby and Rob Luzecky -- The Litchfield Prisoner's Dilemma / Richard Greene -- Sugar and Spice and Some Things Not So Nice! |
| Subject |
Orange is the new black (Television program)
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Television programs -- Philosophy.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
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| Added Author |
Greene, Richard, 1961 September 2- editor.
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Robison-Greene, Rachel, 1983- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Orange is the new black and philosophy. Chicago : Open Court, [2015] 9780812698992 (DLC) 2015943817 (OCoLC)921826088 |
| ISBN |
9780812699081 (electronic bk.) |
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0812699084 (electronic bk.) |
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