Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes

by Nicolas Michaud (Editor)

Overview

Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything we know about life, meaning, heroism, and even burritos, and it’s time to give the show some serious thought. This book screws open our cranial lids, mucks about in the mess that is our heads, and attempts to come to some answers about the nature of reality. Adventure Time and Philosophy is a chance to put down your broadsword, put your exhausted monster-slaying feet up, and try to figure out why you spend your time rescuing people in distress and fighting for justice. Who better than Finn and Jake to have as companions when taking on Plato, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard or encountering the Slime Princess, the Ice King, and Marceline the Vampire Queen? Filled with chapters written by a colorful cast of characters, Adventure Time and Philosophy enlightens us about the profound and life-affirming spiritual subtext and dark comedic elements of an awesomely fantastic show.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812698589
Publisher:	Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/14/2015
Series:	Popular Culture and Philosophy , #87
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Nicolas Michaud is philosophy instructor at Jacksonville University in Florida. The editor of Frankenstein and Philosophy and Hunger Games and Philosophy, he lives in Jacksonville, FL.

Table of Contents

A Few Short Graybles ix

I Nasty, Brutish, and Sweet 1

1 The Finn-losophy of Adventure Time John V. Karavitis 3

2 Poetical! The Art-Science Wars in Ooo Daniel Leonard 15

3 Power and Parenthood in the Land of Ooo David Caballeros 25

4 Who Governs Ooo? Ben Gale Adam Barkman 35

5 Should Simon Have Saved Marceline? Matthew Montoya 45

6 Games Vampires Play Trip McCrossin 57

II Glob Said the Word and It Was "Cabbage!" 67

7 Dude. Stop. Saying. All This. Crazy. Nonsense Nicolas Michaud 69

8 Ice King Blues Greg Littmann 79

9 The Owl and the One-Armed Boy Liam Miller 89

10 Did Prismo Create the Best Possible World? Matthew Montoya 101

11 Oh God, Where the Glob Art Thou? Poom Namvol 111

III Life Is But a Croak Dream 123

12 The Paradox of Horror and the Ocean of Fear Michael J. Muniz 125

13 Play Time? Interpretation Time! Marty Jones 133

14 If a Tree Fort Falls in a Forest… Robert Arp 143

15 What's Time Anyhoo? Mary Green Ronald S. Green 155

16 Ooo, Who's Dreaming? Christopher Ketcham 169

IV What Are You? 183

17 When I Don't Remember You Nicolas Michaud 185

18 When My Gameboy Became Self-Aware David Degginger 197

19 Imagined Worlds and Real Lessons Daniel Vella 209

20 A Buff Baby Who Can Puncha Yo' Buns M. Blankier 219

21 Beemo Unplugged Christopher Ketcham 231

V For Righteous Eyes Only 241

22 Finn's No Hero! Scott Forest Aikin 243

23 How to Be a Hero Greg Littmann 255

24 Our Real-Life Enchiridions Michael J. Muniz 267

25 I Want to Be Your Hero, Maybe! Rakel Blöndal Sveinsdóttir 275

26 Our Heroes! Trip McCrossin 285

References 293

Our Adventurous Authors 297

Index 301