Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (and So Can You!)At the head of The Colbert Report, one of the most popular shows on television, Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the particularly rich set of issues and emotions Colbert brings to mind. Stephen Colbert and Philosophy is crammed with thoughtful and amusing chapters, each written by a philosopher and all focused on Colbert's inimitable reality -- from his word creations (truthiness, wikiality, freem, and others) to his position as a faux-pundit who openly mocks Fox News and CNN. Although most of the discussion is centered around The Colbert Report, this collection does not neglect either his best-selling book, I Am America (And So Can You ), or his public performances, including his incendiary 2006 White House Press Correspondents' Dinner speech. |
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George A Reisch | |
Title Page | |
Formidable Opponent and the Necessity of Moral Doubt | |
Things that Make You Go What? | |
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| Title | Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (and So Can You!) Volume 41 of Popular culture and philosophy |
| Editor | Aaron Allen Schiller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Open Court Publishing, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0812696611, 9780812696615 |
| Length | 276 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Criticism Social Science / Popular Culture |
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