Edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Meditations on Springfield?


THE CHARACTERS

1. Homer and Aristotle
   Raja Halwani

2. Lisa and American Anti-intellectualism
   Aeon J. Skoble

3. Why Maggie Matters: Sounds of Silence, East and West
   Eric Bronson

4.  Marge's Moral Motivation
    Gerald J. Erion and Joseph A. Zeccardi

5. Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad
   Mark T. Conard


SIMPSONIAN THEMES

6. The Simpsons and Allusion: "Worst Essay Ever�
   William Irwin and J.R. Lombardo

7. Popular Parody: The Simpsons Meets the Crime Film  
   Deborah Knight

8. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony and the Meaning of Life
   Carl Matheson

9. Simpsonian Sexual Politics
   Dale E. Snow and James J. Snow


I DIDN'T DO IT: ETHICS AND THE SIMPSONS
 
10. The Moral World of the Simpson Family: A Kantian Perspective
    James Lawler

11. The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family
    Paul A. Cantor

12. Springfield Hypocrisy 
    Jason Holt

13. Enjoying the so-called "Iced Cream": Mr. Burns, Satan, and Happiness
    Daniel Barwick

14. Hey-diddily-ho, Neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and Neighborly Love
    David Vessey

15. The Function of Fiction: The Heuristic Value of Homer
    Jennifer L. McMahon


THE SIMPSONS AND THE PHILOSOPHERS

16. A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield
    James M. Wallace

17. "And the Rest Writes Itself�: Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons
    David L. G. Arnold

18. What Bart Calls Thinking
    Kelly Dean Jolley

Episode List

Based on Ideas by (Chronology of Philosophers)

Featuring the Voices of (Notes on Contributors)

Index
        

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