Savor moments of Zen like never before, with our Senior
Philosophical Correspondents
The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy is revised,
expanded, and updated to probe deeper than ever before the
philosophical significance of the quintessential ‘fake’
news show of the 21st century.
* Features significant revisions and updates from the first 2007
edition
* Includes discussion of both The Daily Show and its
spin-off, The Colbert Report
* Reveals why and how The Daily Show is philosophically
engaging and significant
* Showcases philosophers at their best, discussing truth,
knowledge, reality, and the American Way
* Faces head on tough and surprisingly funny questions about
politics, religion, and power
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: From Wiley-Blackwell’s World Philosophy
Headquarters in Malden 1
Segment 1 Headlines: Faux News Is Good News 5
1 Rallying Against the Conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil
Postman, and Entertainment Bias 7
Gerald J. Erion
2 The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News
Source 23
Michael Gettings
3 The Daily Show: An Ethos for the Fifth Estate 38
Rachael Sotos
4 Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon 56
Greg Littmann
5 Keeping It (Hyper) Real: Anchoring in the Age of Fake News
69
Kellie Bean
Segment 2 Live Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher,
Sort of 83
6 Jon Stewart: The New and Improved Public Intellectual 85
Terrance Mac Mullan
7 Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power 102
Judith Barad
8 Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101 114
Alejandro Bárcenas
9 ‘Jews! Camera 3’: How Jon Stewart Echoes Martin
Buber 125
Joseph A. Edelheit
Segment 3 Field Report: Politics and Critical Thinking
137
10 More Bullshit: Political Spin and the PR-ization of Media
139
Kimberly Blessing and Joseph Marren
11 The Senior Black Correspondent: Saying What Needs to Be Said
155
John Scott Gray
12 The Daily Show’s Exposé of Political Rhetoric
167
Liam P. Dempsey
13 The Daily Show Way: Critical Thinking, Civic Discourse, and
Postmodern Consciousness 181
Roben Torosyan
Segment 4 Interview: Religion and Culture 197
14 GOP Almighty: When God Tells Me (and My Opponents) to Run for
President 199
Roberto Sirvent and Neil Baker
15 Profaning the Sacred: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in
‘This Week in God’ 211
Matthew S. Lo Presti
16 Jon Stewart and the Fictional War on Christmas 231
David Kyle Johnson
17 Evolution, Schmevolution: Jon Stewart and the Culture Wars
247
Massimo Pigliucci
Segment 5 Your Moment of Zen: Beyond The Daily Show
265
18 America (The Book): Textbook Parody and Democratic Theory
267
Steve Vanderheiden
19 A Tea Party for Me the People: The Living Revolution Meets
the Originalists 281
Rachael Sotos
20 Neologization à la Stewart and Colbert 298
Jason Holt
21 Irrationality and ‘Gut’ Reasoning: Two Kinds of
Truthiness 309
Amber L. Griffioen
22 Thank God It’s Stephen Colbert! The Rally to Restore
Irony on The Colbert Report 326
Kevin S. Decker
Senior Philosophical Correspondents 341
Index 348
Sobre o autor
Jason Holt is Associate Professor at Acadia University. He is author of Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness, co-author of Flexibility: A Concise Guide, and editor of The Daily Show and Philosophy and a forthcoming anthology in philosophy of sport.
William Irwin is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles including Superman and Philosophy, Black Sabbath and Philosophy, and Spider-Man and Philosophy.
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