Mister Rogers and Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohr, Eric J.

Contributor:

Mohr, Holly K.

Series:

Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

Popular Culture and Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral education.

Emotional intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Open Court, 2019.

Summary:

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which began as The Children's Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America. The show's message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation. In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on the Neighborhood phenomenon. Rogers's way of communicating with children has a Socratic dimension, and is compared with other attempts to cultivate philosophy in children. Wonder is the origin of philosophy and science, and Mister Rogers always looked for wonder. Did Mister Rogers unwittingly create the Millennials by his message that everyone is special? What Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy can tell us about Fred Rogers's attempt to rehabilitate children's television. X the Owl obsesses, Daniel Tiger regresses, Lady Elaine displaces anger, King Friday controls--how puppets can be used to teach us about feelings. Fred Rogers's indirect communication is key to the show, and most evident in the land of make-believe, where he doesn't make himself known. How Mister Rogers helps us see that the ordinary world is extraordinary, if we're willing to open ourselves up to it. How does Mister Rogers's method of teaching compare with Maria Montessori's? Fred Rogers and Carl Rogers have a lot in common: The Neighborhood is observed in the light of Rogerian therapy. Mister Rogers's view of evil is closer to Rousseau than to Voltaire. Fred Rogers gave a non-philosophical interpretation of the philosophical approach known as personalism. Daoism helps us understand how Fred Rogers, the antithesis of a stereotypical male, could achieve such success as a TV star. In the show and in his life, we can see how Rogers lived &quote;the ethics of care.&quote; Puppets help children understand that persons are not isolated, but interconnected. Mister Rogers showed us that talking and singing about our feelings makes them more manageable.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Thanks

I Did You Know It’s All Right to Wonder?

1. The Wonderful Feeling of Being Alive

2. Mesmeric Mister Rogers

3. Wonder and Philosophy as a Way Home

4. The Gently Socratic Inquiry of Fred Rogers

II What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?

5. Another Day in the Neighborhood

6. Peace through Emotional Development

7. Feelings, Mentionable and Manageable

III By Pretending You Can Be Most Anything You Can Think About

8. The Virtues of Art

9. Fred’s Felt Friends

10. Play in the Real World

11. Mister Rogers’s Pseudonyms

12. Puppets Are People Too

13. Won’t You Be My Posthuman Neighbor

IV You Are My Friend, You Are Special to Me

14. A Party to Celebrate the Personal

15. I, Thou, and the Neighborhood

16. Loved into Being

17. A Word from a Man Mister Rogers Ruined

18. Lessons from Fred Rogers’s Dao

19. If Everyone’s Special, … Is Anyone Special?

V There Are Many Ways to Solve a Problem Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

0-8126-9481-3

OCLC:

1262317581