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Arrested Development and Philosophy
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?
The Life of
Arrested Development
Is Not Worth Living
Michael: “The Good One, the Moral One, the Fool.”
Gob: “They’re Laughing with Me, Michael, They’re Laughing with Me.”
Lindsay: “You Call Yourself an Environmentalist, Why Don’t You Go Club a Few Beavers?”
The Yuck Factor, and the Wisdom of Repugnance
Chapter 3: Freudian Arrested Development
Analysts and Therapists for the Bluths
Perhaps an Attic Shall I Seek—The Unconscious
Prove It: Baiting the Unconscious
Michael, Marta,
Ann
Other Freudian Slips
Motherboy, or the Oedipus Complex
. . . and Taboo: Les Cousins Dangereux
Pop-Pop Gets Put on the Couch?
Gob Isn’t Just Deceiving Himself
Gob Makes Huge Mistakes in Good Faith
Chapter 5: Dr. Fünke’s 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution
Happy Bluthday to You! The Bluth Family History
Marx and Alienation—Or, How to Never Succeed in Life While Really, Really Trying
A Case of “Light Treason”: A Man Who Would Do Anything to Make a Buck
Don’t Buy This Book! Down with Capitalism!
Product Safety: The Cornballer
Marketing Ethics: The Model Home
Treatment of Employees: The Banana Stand and Child Labor
Treatment of Employees: The Office and the Construction Site
International Business: “Light” Treason
Your Uncle Doesn’t Not Work Here Anymore: Marx, Labor, and Capital
It’s a Gaming Ship: Consumption and Leisure
There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand: Class Status and Performance
I Thought You Meant of the Things You Eat: the Bluths and the Politics of the Family
Part Three: Some Huge Mistakes
Chapter 8: What Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear
You There, Reading This Book . . .
Whatever I Do, I Won’t Quote Hegel
Stuff Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear; African-Americany Might Not Be Ready, Either . . .
Chapter 9: “I Just Blue Myself”
I Christen This Ship the
Lucille
“I’ve Been a Horrible Mother.”
The Hearer Doesn’t Just Lay There, Michael, If That’s What You Were Thinking
How to Solve a Problem Like Tobias
Bland (I mean, Ann), Marta, the Richters, Aristotle, and the Metaphysical Question
Larry (the Surrogate), Forget-Me-Nows, and Locke’s Criticism of Descartes
Thomas Reid, Gob, and the Problem of the “Forget-Me-Now”
Part Four: The One Where They Do Epistemology
Chapter 12: You Can’t Do Magic
Chapter 13: Is Justified True
Bluth
Belief Knowledge?
I Didn’t Even Know That There Was a Cabin . . . He Wasn’t Taking Me To . . .
As You May or May Not Know [JTB] and I Have Hit a Bit of a Rough Patch . . .
First You Dump All Over It, Now You Want to Know How It’s [Solved] . . .
Choosing Between Wayne Jarvis and Barry Zuckerkorn
The Lenses of Wayne Jarvis, Barry Zuckerkorn, and George Michael Bluth
Q: War! What Is It Good For?! A: Well, Certainly Not Buster Bluth
How to Choose Between Bunkers and Balls
Who Knows What Balls Look Like?
In the Absence of Opie (Sorry, Ron)
Part Five: Solid As Iraq: Politics and Ethics Arrested
Chapter 15: No Touching! George Sr.’s Brush with Treason
“Do You Know How They Punish Treason?”—First Time . . .—“I’ve Never Heard of a Second!”
A Company Whose Founder May Be on Trial for Treason: The Case Against George Sr.
“He’s Guilty, Michael, of Medium to Heavy Treason”: The Degrees of Treason
“We Do Need to Stick Together Like a Family on This”: Why Treason Is Wrong
Chapter 16: “I’ve Made a Huge Mistake”
“And I’m Not Afraid to Make Mistakes. Or Have You Forgotten to Read This . . .”
“Nobody Makes a Fool out of Our Family without My Help.”
Chapter 17: The Comedy of Contradiction
Seemingly Deceptive: Lindsay’s Lies
“I’m Not Sure if My Ethics Teacher Would Love It if I Cheated on My Essay”
Beyond the Never-Nude: Nietzsche’s Man of the Future
Contradiction and the Form of Comedy: There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand
Part Six: And On The Epilogue . . .
Chapter 18: And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything
Narrating the Bluths: “A Clear-Cut Situation with the Promise of Comedy”
“And That’s Why You Always Leave a Note”: What Lessons Can We Learn From Our Narratives?
“And That’s How You Narrate a Story”—What We Tell, What We Are
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