Lost and philosophy : the island has its reasons / edited by Sharon M. Kaye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaye, Sharon M.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lost (Television program).

Physical Description:

vii, 277 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Summary:

When Flight 815 crashes on a remote tropical island, it gets stuck in a philosophical quagmire. Survivors band together to guard against surreal dangers, but who will guard the guardians? Thrust into the state of nature, our scantily clad and well-tanned heros learn that they were lost long before the crash. Watching them wrestle their demons, you may realize you're lost too. Locke, Rousseau, Hume. Who are these people?Sometimes it feels like you need a Ph.D. to follow the show. But you don't. You just need this book in which twenty-one philosophers explore the deep questions we all face as survivors on this planet: Does everything happen for a reason? Is torture ever justified? Who are the Others? How do we know we're not patients in Hurley's psych ward? What if the Dharma Intitiative is experimenting on us? Desmond may not be able to save Charlie, but this book could save you.

Contents:

L is for love

What do Jack and Locke owe their fathers? / Michael W. Austin

Should we condemn Michael for saving Walt? / Rebecca Vartabedian

Moral stand-offs : objectification on Lost / Robert Arp and Patricia Brace

Research ethics and the Dharma Initiative / Deborah R. Barnbaum

The island of ethical subjectivism : not the paradise of Lost / George Wrisley

O is for origin

Meaning and freedom on the island / Sander Lee

What would you do? altered states in Lost / Charles Taliaferro and Dan Kastrul

The island as a test of free will : freedom of reinvention and internal determinism in Lost / Charles Girard and David Meulemans

Lost, The third policeman, and guerilla ontology / Jessica Engelking

Lost in codes : interpretation and deconstruction in Lost's narrative / Tom Grimwood

S is for survival

No exit

from the island : a Sartrean analysis of Lost / Sandra Bonetto

"The others are coming" : ideology and otherness in Lost / Karen Gaffney

Tortured souls / Scott Parker

Friends and enemies in the state of nature : the absence of Hobbes and the presence of Schmitt / Peter S. Fosl

Lost's state of nature / Richard Davies

T is for transformation

The tao of John Locke / Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin

Of moths and men : paths of redemption on the island of second chances / Brett Chandler Patterson

Everything happens for a reason / David Werther

"Don't mistake coincidence for fate" : Lost theories and coincidence / Briony Addey

Aquinas and Rose on faith and reason / Daniel B. Gallagher

Lost and the problem of life after birth / Jeremy Barris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405163156

1405163151

OCLC:

162501961

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