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Index
Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction: Welcome to the Psychosphere Part I “IT'S ALL ONE GHETTO, MAN … A GIANT GUTTER IN OUTER SPACE”: Pessimism and Anti-natalism
1 Why Life Rather than Death?: Answers from Rustin Cohle and Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer's Pessimism Why Not Suicide? Schopenhauer on Compassion Rust's Doubt Rust's Conversion Notes
2 Grounding Carcosa: Cosmic Horror and Philosophical Pessimism in True Detective
“This Is Some Halloween Shit” “It Means I'm Bad at Parties” “Time Is a Flat Circle” “The Light Is Winning” Notes
3 Hart and Cohle: The Hopeful Pessimism of True Detective
What Pessimism Is and Is Not Pessimism, Freedom, and Truth Pessimism and Hope Notes
4 Loving Rust's Pessimism: Rationalism and Emotion in True Detective
“Boundaries Are Good” “This World Is a Veil, and the Face You Wear Is Not Your Own” “I Consider Myself a Realist” “Was January the Third, My Daughter's Birthday, I Remember” “She Saved Me from the Sin of Being a Father” “I Was a Part of Everything that I Ever Loved” Notes
Part II “We Get the World We Deserve”: Cruelty, Violence, Evil, and Justice
5 Rust's Anti-natalism: The Moral Imperative to “Opt Out of a Raw Deal”
Rust Cohle as an Anti-natalist Rust's Scattershot Philosophy of Anti-natalism Benatar on Anti-natalism Returning to Cohle's Life Is an Inherently Bad Proposition Notes
6 Where Is the Cruelty in True Detective?
Knowing Cruelty Embracing Suffering Two Sufferers Affirmation or Death Notes
7 Nevermind: Subjective and Objective Violence in Vinci
“Subjective” and “Objective” Violence: Life in Vinci Frank Goes Straight The World We Deserve vs. the World We Want “The Story's Told, with Facts and Lies …” Notes
8 Naturalism, Evil, and the Moral Monster: The Evil Person in True Detective
“Green-Eared Spaghetti Monsters” “He's Worse than Anybody” “This World Is a Veil, and the Face You Wear Is Not Your Own” Notes
9 “But I Do Have a Sense of Justice”: Law and Justice in the Bleak World of Vinci
Law Divorced from Morality “Call It What You Want, Revenge, Justice … Retirement Package” “I Don't Know if It'll Make Any Difference, but It Should, Because We Deserve a Better World” Justice and the Law Notes
Part III “Everybody's Nobody”: Consciousness, Existence, and Identity
10 A Dream Inside a Locked Room: The Illusion of Self
Life Is a Dream Eastern Views Western Views Pessimism and Nihilism Transcendence Notes
11 I Am Not Who I Used to Be, But Am I Me?: Personal Identity and the Narrative of Rust
A Story of Three Rusts The Puzzle of Personal Identity Where to Now? Notes
12 “The Light Is Winning”
Stories to Keep Children Busy The Family Man The Poison of Nihilism The Vulnerable Hold the Antidote The Head of the Snake “The Light Is Winning” Notes
13 The Tragic Misstep: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Last Midnight
The Constitution for Suicide More than a Biological Puppet Nature Separate from Nature “Everybody's Nobody” Opting Out “The Light Is Winning” Notes
Part IV “This Is My Least Favorite Life”: Noir, Tragedy, and Philosopher-Detectives
14 The Tragedy of True Detective Season Two: Living Our “Least Favorite Lives”
Attic Tragedy: “Sometimes Your Worst Self Is Your Best Self” Dionysian Wisdom or a Philosophy of the Good? “Sometimes Your Worse Self Is” Just … Worse A “Good Woman” to “Mitigate Our Baser Tendencies”? Feminism as the Good Is Athena Right? Is This Just “My Fucking Problem?” The Crossing of the Good Notes
15 The Noir Detective and the City
Philosophy and the City The Dark City of the Detective The City Inside Notes
16 Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero
The Lack of Cohle and Hart “You're Obsessed, Just Not with Your Work” Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero Notes
Part V “Time Is a Flat Circle”: Time in True Detective
17 Time Is a Flat Circle: Nietzsche's Concept of Eternal Recurrence
A Purposeless Will at the Heart of Reality The True Test of Life Affirmation Finding Meaning in Conflict The “Lightening” of Cohle's Pessimism Notes
18 Eternal Recurrence and the Philosophy of the “Flat Circle”
Rust's Philosophy: Pessimism and the Escape from Time Does Rust Really Believe Time Is Circular? What Does “Time is a Flat Circle” Not Mean? Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Circular Time as a Solution that Replaces a Pessimistic Problem Notes
Known Associates Index EULA
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