Woody Allen and Philosophy: You Mean My Whole Fallacy is Wrong (Popular Culture and Philosophy Series)
How often have you wished for deeper exploration of the wonderfully witty insights of Woody Allen? If your answer is "Never," then you're in luck, because this book does something entirely different. It brings together fifteen great minds to teach vital philosophical lessons suggested by Woody Allen's work. Or, if you want to get picky, it doesn't quite do that either. At any rate, this book guaranteed to overturn your preconceptions about life, the cosmos, and the fundamental nature of evil,...
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Comedian, writer, director, actor, musician, and deep thinker, Woody Allen is clearly trying to say something, but what? And why should anyone care? Fifteen philosophers representing different schools of thought answer these questions, focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output. These essays explore such topics as how Schopenhauer's theory of humor emerges in Annie Hall; why, for all his apparent pessimism, Allen gives a brighter alternative to the Bogartian nihilism of film noir; the importance of integrity for the Good Life, as found in Manhattan; and the fact that just because the universe is meaningless and life is pointless is no reason to commit suicide. Also here are droll, probing essays on why hedonism is a health hazard, and why, despite the fact that Earth may be swallowed by a black hole and crushed to the size of a peanut, the toilet continues to overflow.
Foreword: Can We Not Talk about Sex All the Time?ixAcknowledgmentsxiiIntroduction: You Know Nothing of My Work1Act IMorality, Interpretation, and the Meaning of Life51.God, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life in the Films of Woody Allen72.Integrity in Woody Allen's Manhattan243.Does Morality Have to Be Blind? A Kantian Analysis of Crimes and Misdemeanors334.Arguing Interpretations: The Pragmatic Optimism of Woody Allen48Act IIWoody's Craft675.The Mousetrap: Reading Woody Allen696.Woody on Aesthetic Appreciation897.Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen1018."You Don't Deserve Cole Porter": Love and Music According to Woody Allen1189.Dead Sharks and Dynamite Ham: The Philosophical Use of Humor in Annie Hall13210.Reconstructing Ingmar: The Aesthetic Purging of the Great Model151Act IIIFive Films16711.The Dangers of Hedonism: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy16912.Inauthenticity and Personal Identity in Zelig18613.It's All Darkness: Plato, The Ring of Gyges, and Crimes and Misdemeanors20314.Self Knowledge in Another Woman21815.Woody Allen's Film Noir Light: Crime, Love, and Self-Knowledge in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion243Entertainment for Intellectuals: A Woody Allen Filmography259All These Great Minds ...261Index265
