Of all the David Frosts, I am the David Frostiest.
Open Court Publishing released Girls and Philosophy in their series on Pop Culture and Philosophy. I wrote the first chapter for it on what Adorno would say about Lena Dunham’s HBO show, Girls. It’s available at Amazon and Powells.com.
When we like a TV show, why do we like it? What is it about a TV show or any media content that makes it good? Perhaps you don’t care. “It’s enough that I like it,” you say. “I don’t need to know more than that.” That may be fine for you. But media content …
I’ve been looking for any book reviews out there of “Girls and Philosophy.” The first one I’ve found was at Salon.com well before the book hit the stores. The Salon writer, Anna Silman, interviews the editors (she calls them the “authors”) about the characters’ existentialism and more. There’s an essay in the book where the …
Alex Ross of the New Yorker writes: Anyone who underwent a liberal-arts education in recent decades probably encountered the thorny theorists associated with the Institute for Social Research, better known as the Frankfurt School. Their minatory titles, filled with dark talk of “Negative Dialectics” and “One-Dimensional Man,” were once proudly displayed on college-dorm shelves, as …