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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: First Round Robin: Tying it All Together, or Not
Chapter 1: What Would the Dude Do?
Deconstruction, Dichotomies, and the Dude
Walter’s Generalism vs. Dieter’s Particularism
The Virtues of the Dude
Chapter 2: The Big Lebowski and Mathematical Logic
Jeffrey Lebowski ≠ Jeffrey Lebowski
Can the Dude’s Room Actually Be Tied Together?
What If You Really Care about the Rules?
Is Consistency unDude? is Completeness?
Abiding Axioms
Part Two: Second Round Robin: Thousands of Years of Philosophical Tradition, or from Socrates to Sandy Koufax
Chapter 3: The Dude Abides, But Does He Flourish?
“How’s the Smut Business, Jackie?”
“He Looks Like a Fuckin’ Loser”
“With Friends Like These, Huh, Gary?”
“I Like Your Style, Dude”
Chapter 4: “Man Down!”
Aristotle: Social Beings and the Key to Pasadena
Epicurus: Natural Pleasures and Taking it Easy
The Dude: Eudaimonia, Ataraxia, and League Play
Chapter 5: Epicurus and “Contented Poverty”
Real Epicureanism
Enough is Enough
Love, Sex, and His Dudeness
The Simple Life
Money
True Wealth
Chapter 6: Buddhism, Daoism, and Dudeism
The Dude and the Dao
Dharma and the Dude
Zen Dudeism?
Part Three: Third Round Robin: Over The Line!
Chapter 7: Drawing a Line in the Sand
Just War Theory: Jus ad Bellum
Just War Theory: Jus in Bello
Why We Should Give a Shit about the Rules of Aggression
Chapter 8: “That Ain’t Legal Either”
Tumbling Tumbleweeds, What Have You, and Being “Very UnDude”
Rule Rigidity 1: “Am I the Only One around Here Who Gives a Shit about the Rules?”
Rule Rigidity 2: “Okay, but How Does All This Add Up to an Emergency?”
Rule Rigidity 3: “Dude, Chinaman is Not the Preferred Nomenclature”
The Big Lebowski’s Hypocrisy: “Every Bum’s Lot in Life is His Own Responsibility”
Exclusion: “Donny, You’re Out of Your Element”
The Virtues of Perspective: “No Funny Stuff”
Part Four: Fourth Round Robin: Nothing to be Afraid of
Chapter 9: Bowling Our Way out of Nihilism
“What the Fuck is He Talking About?”
The Exhaustion of Nihilism
Achievers Anonymous
Credence in Modernity
Bowling Abides
What Form Does Our Abiding Take?
Chapter 10: Existentialism, Absurdity, and The Big Lebowski
Camus on Absurdity
Sartre on Absurdity
Camus vs. Sartre on Existentialist Art
The Existentialist Character of The Big Lebowski
Chapter 11: Bowling, Despair, and American Nihilism
Sic Semper Deadbeats
A Tale of Two Lebowskis
Sisyphus Was a Bowler
The Wisdom of Abiding Repetition
Part Five: Fifth Round Robin: What Makes A Dude?
Chapter 12: The Big Lebowski’s Oedipal Complex
Getting into the Unconscious
Superego
Anal and Oral Fixations
Life and Death Drives: Bunny and the Nihilists
Pedophiles and Schizophrenia
Why We Love The Big Lebowski
Chapter 13: In the Dude, I Abide
“I’m an Achiever, Man”
Where’s the Fucking Irony, Lebowski?
“The Story is Ludicrous”
“They’re the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers”
“Come On, You’re Being Very Un-Dude”
What Does an Achiever Achieve?
In the Dude, I Abide
Chapter 14: “Mr. Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women, Man”
“I’m Not Mr. Lebowski; You’re Mr. Lebowski”
“I’m Talkin’ about the Dude Here”
“Takin’ Her Easy for All of Us Sinners”
“First of All, Dude, You Don’t Have an Ex”
“Mr. Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women, Man”
“Jeffrey . . . Love Me”
Heroes and Allies
To Find the Man in Me
Chapter 15: “Well, I Do Work, Sir”
How Slow Can We Go?
Our Right to Live Slow and Die Bowling
Who Wins the Race? Slow and Steady Does!
The Dude’s Manifesto
The Fable of the Ant and the Dude
Part Six: Sixth Round Robin: Mark it Zero!
Chapter 16: “Am I Wrong?”
“You See What Happens, Larry!”
“At Least It’s an Ethos”
“Shomer Fucking Shabbas”
Walter’s Wager
Jumping to a Conclusion
Chapter 17: “That’s Just Like, Uh, Your Opinion, Man”
Opinion, Knowledge, and Justification
Are All Opinions about “Matters of Opinion”?
A Look at Jesus’s Claim
Part Seven: Seventh Round Robin: Livin’ in The Past
Chapter 18: Hippies, Jews, and the Philosophy of Memory
We All Live in the Past
Stuck in the Past
Doesn’t the Dude Also Live in the Past?
Rooted in the Past
Chapter 19: “I Don’t Roll on Shabbas!”
History and Philosophy
History and Identity
History, Self, and Commitment
Jews among Others
History, Nihilism, and Death
Take Real Comfort in That
Contributors
Index
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