Mad men and philosophy : nothing is as it seems / / edited by Rod Carveth and James B. South.

• Superior document: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Carveth, Rod.; South, James B., 1960-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
• Physical Description: x, 262 p.
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

People may see things differently, but they don't really want to : Mad men and problems of knowledge and freedom. What fools we were: Mad men, hindsight, and justification / Landon W. Schurtz -- People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone : mimetic madness at Sterling Cooper / George A. Dunn -- Capitalism and freedom in the affluent society / Kevin Guilfoy -- There is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent : Mad men and the problem of meaning. Pete, Peggy, Don and the dialectic of remembering and forgetting / John Fritz -- The existential void of Roger Sterling / Raymond Angelo Belliotti -- Egoless egoists: the second-hand lives of Mad men / Robert White -- An existential look at Mad men: Don Draper, advertising, and the promise of happiness / Ada Jaarsma -- And you know what happiness is? Mad men and ethics. In on it: honesty, respect, and the ethics of advertising / Andreja Novakovic and Tyler Whitney -- Creating the need for the new: It's not the wheel, it's the carousel / George Teschner and Gabrielle Teschner -- You're looking in the wrong direction: Mad men and the ethics of advertising / Adam Barkman -- Is Don Draper a good man? / Andrew Terjesen -- Don Draper, on how to make oneself (whole again) / John Elia -- No one else is saying the right thing about this: Mad men and social philosophy. And nobody understands that, but you do: the Aristotelian ideal of friendship among the Mad men (and women) / Abigail E. Myers -- Mad women: Aristotle, second wave feminism, and the women in Mad men / Ashley Jihee Barkman -- We've got bigger problems to worry about than TV, O.K.? Mad men and race / Rod Carveth -- New York City is a marvelous machine: Mad men and the power of social convention / James B. South.