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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Meditations on Springfield?
Part I: The Characters
1. Homer and Aristotle
2. Lisa and American Anti-intellectualism
3. Why Maggie Matters: Sounds of Silence, East and West
4. Marge’s Moral Motivation
5. Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad
Part II: Simpsonian Themes
6. The Simpsons and Allusion: “Worst Essay Ever”
7. Popular Parody: The Simpsons Meets the Crime Film
8. The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life
9. Simpsonian Sexual Politics
Part III: I Didn’t Do It: Ethics and The Simpsons
10. The Moral World of the Simpson Family: A Kantian Perspective
11. The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family
12. Springfield Hypocrisy
13. Enjoying the so-called “Iced Cream”: Mr. Burns, Satan, and Happiness
14. Hey-diddily-ho, Neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and Neighborly Love
15. The Function of Fiction: The Heuristic Value of Homer
Part IV: The Simpsons and the Philosophers
16. A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield
17. “And the Rest Writes Itself”: Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons
18. What Bart Calls Thinking
Episode List
Based on Ideas By
Featuring the Voices Of
Notes
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