Philosophy and Breaking Bad 1st Edition by Kevin S Decker, David R Koepsell, Robert Arp ISBN 9783319403427 3319403427

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ISBN 10: 3319403427

ISBN 13: 9783319403427

Author: Kevin S. Decker, David R. Koepsell, Robert Arp

This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad. This show garnered both critical and popular attention for its portrayal of a cancer-stricken, middle-aged, middle-class, high school chemistry teacher’s drift into the dark world of selling methamphetamine to support his family. Its characters, situations, and aesthetic raise serious and familiar philosophical issues, especially related to ethics and morality. The show provokes a bevy of rich questions and discussion points, such as: What are the ethical issues surrounding drugs? What lessons about existentialism and fatalism does the show present? How does the show grapple with the concept of the end ‘justifying’ the means? Is Walt really free not to ‘break bad’? Can he be redeemed? What is the definition and nature of badness (or evil) itself? Contributors address these and other questions as they dissect the legacy of the show and discuss its contributions to philosophical conversations.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: “We Tried to Poison You” – Breaking Evil

1. What’s Stopping Me: Breaking Bad and Virtue Ethics

2. Eichmann in Albuquerque

3. Empathy and Evil: Drug-Dealing Murderers Are People Too

Part 2: “I Am the One Who Knocks” – The Shadow of Death and the Meaning of Life

4. In the Shadow of the Sickness Unto Death: Walter White’s Transformation into the Knight of Meth

5. Death Is Easy If You’re Dead

6. Cosmic Justice in Breaking Bad: Can Sociopaths and Antiheroes Lead Meaningful Lives?

7. Law and Morality in Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Justice

Part 3: “I Will Put You Under the Jail” – The Tragedy of Breaking Bad

8. The Crumbling Patriarchy and Triumphant Feminist Ethic of Care in Breaking Bad

9. What Bad Is Not: Breaking Bad, Apophatic and Dramaturgic Continua from Creator to Viewer, and a Poetics of the Philosophy of Religion

Part 4: “I Did It for Me” – Morality, Mastery, and Meth

10. Recovering Lost Moral Ground: Can Walt Make Amends?

11. (Im)Morality in Action

12. The Transformation of Walter White: A Case Study in Bad Faith

13. Breaking Bonds: White Lines of Love and Hate

Part 5: Becoming Jesse James – Breaking Bad’s Challenge to Philosophy

14. Hatred: Walter White Is Doing It All Wrong

15. “We Are Responsible to All for All”: An Intersubjective Analysis of Breaking Bad

16. Theater of the Absurd: Breaking Bad as Edifying Philosophy

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