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Table of Contents
Popular Culture and Philosophy™ Series Editor: William Irwin
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - “What’s All This Then?” The Introduction
The Importance of Being British
What, That’s Not Enough for You?
Bloody Hell, There’s More!?!
Okay, That’s All for Now
And Where the @#$%^& is the Queen?
Philosophical Aspects of Monty Python
Chapter 2 - “Life’s a Piece of Shit”: Heresy, Humanism, and Heroism in Monty ...
“Blessed Are the Cheese Makers”: The Question of Heresy
“A New World, a Better Future”: The Question of Humanism
“Life’s a Piece of Shit”: The Question of Heroism
Chapter 3 - What Mr. Creosote Knows About Laughter
To Laugh, or To Scream?
Who’s Afraid of Mr. Creosote?
Just Desserts
Chapter 4 - The Limits of Horatio’s Philosophy
What I Think My Chapter May Be About
Wittgenstein and Meaning: The Absurd and The Funny
Meaning and Practice
Chapter 5 - Why Is an Argument Clinic Less Silly than an Abuse Clinic or a ...
What Kind of Argument Would You Like?
The Philosophical Argument and Reflective Equilibrium
Suppose You Were Attached to a Dead Parrot: The Role of Thought Experiments
Chapter 6 - A Very Naughty Boy: Getting Right with Brian
How I Was Saved
God Is Dead (and I’m Not Feeling so Good Myself)
This Deity Is Bleedin’ Demised
The Plumage Don’t Enter into It
Romani Ite Domum
A Good Spanking
Getting Right with Brian (Just in Case)
Chapter 7 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Philosophy, Gender, and Society
Mynd You, Moose Bites Kan Be Pretty Nasti . . .
Why the Pythons Chose Arthur and the Grail
Come On, You Pansy!
We Have Found a Witch. May We Burn Her?
We Have but One Punishment. . . . You Must Tie Her Down on the Bed and Spank Her
Er, Well . . . the Thing Is . . . I Thought Your Son Was a Lady
Yes, but What About the Killer Rabbit?
Chapter 8 - Against Transcendentalism: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Buddhism
Is There Really Something Called ‘Transcendental Metaphysics’?
What’s So Wrong with Transcendental Thinking?
What’s So Grotesque about That?
Back Down to Earth
Mind the Mindfulness
Chapter 9 - Is There Life After Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life?
Life, the Journey: The Axial Answer
Death and (the Meaning of) Life
Philosophy as an Answer
Liberating Laughter
And Now for . . . Comedic Eliminativism
Aspects of Pythonic Philosophy
Chapter 10 - God Forgive Us
In Alphabetical Order: Birth Control (and Other Intimate Matters)
Blasphemy (Name-Calling: With Sticks and Stones to Break Your Bones)
Heaven (Capitalize for Effect)
Bonus Material: The Origin of Monty Python’s Christmas in Heaven Is Revealed ...
Hell (Capitalized because Heaven Was Capitalized)
A Short but Grave Reflection about God and Hell (You Can Use This at Your ...
Justice (A Philosopher Is Observed)
Prayer (A Euphemism for Butt-Kissing and Begging)
Chapter 11 - Monty Python and David Hume on Religion
Causes and Reasons
The Ontological Argument
Get Me to the Argument Clinic!
The Conceivable versus the Possible, Or, How to Confuse a Cat
The Argument from Design, or, “All Things Dull and Ugly”
The Argument from Miracles, Or, “He’s Been Taken Up!”
The Cause of Religion, Or “Oh Father, Please Don’t Boil Us”
The Epilogue: A Question of Belief
Chapter 12 - Madness in Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Michel Foucault: Madness as a Social Construct
Pythonic Madness
Urban Idiots: Foucauldian and Pythonesque
Chapter 13 - Monty Python and the Search for the Meaning of Life
Markets and Motives: Utilitarianism and Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Tradition and Traits: Virtue Theory and The Holy Grail
Religion and Rules: Deontology and Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Knowledge and Nihilism: Science and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Chapter 14 - Existentialism in Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre
Kafka, Camus, and the “Absurd”
The Individual and the Meaning of Life
Sartre, Bad Faith, and Freedom
A Nietzschean Conclusion
Chapter 15 - “My Brain Hurts!”
Hair of the Dog
Making Sense
So Show Us
Do You See It?
Through Them, on Them, over Them
An Exercise for the Reader
No Ambition
How to Patent Nonsense
“Is There Life After Death?”
“Language Games”
“I’d Like to Put This Question to You, Please, Lizard”
Does It Sit on a Chair?
“But—They Simply Do Not Talk”
“Is There Enough of It About?”
Chapter 16 - Why Is a Philosopher Like a Python? How Philosophical Examples Work
Complaints about Complaints and Thinking about Thinking
Madmen, Blancmanges, Violinists, and Abortion
The Practical Value of Philosophical Examples
So, What Have Philosophers Ever Done for Us?
Pythonic Aspects of Philosophy
Chapter 17 - Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus
A Senseless Waste of Human Reason
The Overcoming of Philosophy through Comical Paralysis of Language
Coda
Chapter 18 - Monty Python’s Utterly Devastating Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy
What the Fly Saw
The Story of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Britain’s Most Influential ...
The Problem with Brilliance
Bruces
A Knockout of an Argument
Chapter 19 - Word and Objection: How Monty Python Destroyed Modern Philosophy
In My Day . . .
The Trouble With Dead Parrots, and Sketches About Them
What Is to Be Done?
Chapter 20 - My Years with Monty Python, or, What’s So Funny About Language, ...
Hume’s Gap
Hume’s Incomplete Advice
The Complete Two-Minute Introduction to Conceptual Schemes
And Therefore . . .
No Shoes for Muskrats: How the 1956 Olympic Games Destroyed Indonesian Art
Chapter 21 - Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the ...
“International Philosophy,” from Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
“Dead Parrot,” Episode 8 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “Full Frontal Nudity”
Arthur Meets the Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“Argument Clinic,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 29, “The Money Programme”
“Nudge Nudge,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 3, “How To Recognise ...
Burn The Witch, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“The Cheese Shop,” Episode 33, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “Salad Days”
Everyone Remembers Their First Time: About the authors, nearly all of whom have ...
What Was All That,Then?
Copyright Page
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