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Title:

24 and philosophy : the world according to Jack / edited by Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Davis, and Ronald Weed.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xviii, 223 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

24 (Television program)

Other Authors:

Weed, Jennifer Hart.
Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-
Weed, Ronald L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215) and index.

Contents:

8:00 AM-9:00 AM : truth and illusion in 24: Jack Bauer, Dionysus in the world of Apollo / 1:00 AM-2:00AM : dedication: To Edgar -- 2:00 AM-3:00 AM : philosophy? If you don't know 24, you don't know Jack! / Stephen Snyder -- 3:00 AM-4:00 AM : CTU orientation / Ronald Weed -- 4:00 AM-5:00 AM : acknowledgments: Chloe, we need you!-- 5:00 AM-9:00 AM : Special Agent Jack Bauer -- 5:00 AM-6:00 AM : what would Jack Bauer do? Moral dilemmas and moral theory in 24 / Randall M. Jensen -- 6:00 AM-7:00 AM : between hero and villain: Jack Bauer and the problem of "dirty hands" / Stephen de Wijze -- 7:00 AM-8:00 AM : beyond the call of duty / Richard Davis -- 8:00 AM-9:00 AM : truth and illusion in 24: Jack Bauer, Dionysus in the world of Apollo / Stephen Snyder --
11:00 PM-12:00 AM: classified : the codes. 9:00 AM-10:00 AM : President Palmer and the invasion of China : the beginning of a just war? / Paul A. Cantor -- 10:00 AM-11:00 AM : Jack Bauer as anti-Eichmann and scourge of political liberalism / Brandon Claycomb, Greig Mulberry -- 11:00 AM-12:00 PM : Palmer's pickle: why couldn't he stomach it? / Georgia Testa -- 12:00 PM-3:00 PM : CTU headquarters. 12:00 PM-1:00 PM : the ethics of torture in 24 : shockingly banal / Donal P. O'Mathuna -- 1:00 PM-2:00 PM : Loyalty and the "war of all against all" in 24 / Eric M. Rovie -- 2:00 PM-3:00 PM : Who dares sins : Jack Bauer and moral luck / Rob Lawlor -- 3:00 PM-6:00 PM : Moles, double agents, and terrorists. 3:00 PM-4:00 PM : living in a world of suspicion : the epistemology of mistrust / Scott Calef -- 4:00 PM-5:00 PM : the cruel cunning of reason : the modern/postmodern conflict in 24 / Terrence Kelly -- 5:00 PM-6:00 PM : the knowledge came can be torture / R. Douglas Geivett -- 6:00 PM-9:00 PM : technology, objectification, and the clock. 6:00 PM-7:00 PM : how the cell phone changed the world and made 24 / Read Mercer Schuchardt -- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM : 24 and the ethics of objectification / Robert Arp, John Carpenter -- 8:00 PM-9:00 PM : Jack in double time : 24 in light of aesthetic theory / Paul A. Cantor -- 9:00 M-10:00 PM : classified : CTU personnel. 10:00 PM-11:00 PM : classified: assets and sources -- 11:00 PM-12:00 AM: classified : the codes.

Series:

The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

ISBN:

1405171049 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405171045 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007033950

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)