Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato

A great companion to his big screen sci-fi examples in "The Philosopher at the end of the universe", Mark Rowlands turns his eye to the small screen to illustrate the inherent conflict between the 4 strands that constitute the fractured modern worldview--individualism, relativism, voluntarism and instrumentalism. Themed chapters are culled from Buffy, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Friends, 24, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Frasier. And no worries, it makes a good read even if you've never seen some of these shows.