Louis C.K. and philosophy : you don't get to be bored / edited by Mark Ralkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ralkowski, Mark, editor.

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 99.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C. K., Louis--Criticism and interpretation.

C. K., Louis.

Popular culture--Philosophy.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

xx, 303 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, 2016.

Summary:

Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. the philosopher-king of comedy, and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of Louis C.K. from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The chapters draw upon C.K.'s standup comedy, the show Louie, and C.K.'s other writings. One writer looks at the different meanings of C.K.'s statement, You're gonna be dead way longer than you were alive. One chapter shows the affinity of C.K.'s sick of living this bullshit life with Kierkegaard's sickness unto death. Another pursues Louis's thought that we may by our lack of moral concern live a really evil life without thinking about it. C.K.'s insistence that things that are not can't be points to the philosophical problem of nothingness in relation to being. His religion is apathetic agnostic, conveyed in his thought experiment that God began work in 1982. Louis's argument that you can have the kind of body you want if you make yourself want a disgusting, shitty body, is the Stoic ethics of Epictetus. And, as C.K. has shown in so many ways, the fact that we re soon going to die has its funny side.

Contents:

Everything's amazing and nobody is happy / Max Elder

Sex has something behind it / John Heaney

When to hate and when to be irate / Daniel Malloy

On being a dead person who hasn't died yet / Mark Ralkowski

Just want a shitty body / Bekka Williams

You're gonna die / Ethan Mills

Because nothing can't be / Joseph R. Kirkland

Should Jane get to be bored? / Daniel Addison

What fuckin' chance does this kid have / Joseph Westfall

On "crying like a bitch" / Roberto Sirvent and Joel Avery

Louis C.K.'s no-bullshit philosphy / Marie Snyder

Confronting the "forever empty" / Brandon Polite

Why? Why? Why? / Joel Walmsley

Louis C.K.'s God / Silas Morgan and Roberto Sirvent

God started in 1983 / Matt Destefano

You're not starving / Phil Smolenski

Louis's little belivies / Ryan Jawetz

Believies are not motavaties / Jason Dockstader

The playful though experiments of Louis C.K. / Chris A. Kramer

Feminists can take a joke / Jennifer Mara

If you're not white, you're missing out / Myisha Cherry

Sometimes Cartesian / Eric Scholl

Louis C.K. meets the unconcsious / Duncan Reyburn

An hour / James Bliss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780812699067

0812699068

OCLC:

910530542