Mindless Philosopher: How Philosophy Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Popular Culture

By D.L. Irick

Once ignored by "professional" philosophers and dismissed as philosophically useless, popular culture has proved the ideal medium for teaching complex philosophical concepts such as free will and determinism, identity, ethics, knowledge, and the meaning of life to non-philosophers. By learning to view music, movies, television, literature, celebrity culture, and current events through a philosophical lens -- ordinary folks and the "philosophically oriented" can find the "philosophical subtext" hidden (and not so hidden) in our popular culture. In Mindless Philosopher: How Popular Culture Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Philosophy, readers will not only learn the value of popular entertainment and pop culture, but discover that studying philosophy isn't just enlightening -- it's also fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147510815X
• ISBN13: 9781475108156
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"