Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (And So Can You!)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (And So Can You!)
By (Author) Aaron Allen Schiller
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
15th September 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Popular culture
191
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
396g
Description
At the head of The Colbert Report, one of the most popular shows on television, Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the particularly rich set of issues and emotions Colbert brings to mind. Stephen Colbert and Philosophy is crammed with thoughtful and amusing chapters, each written by a philosopher and all focused on Colbert's inimitable reality from his word creations (truthiness, wikiality, freem, and others) to his position as a faux-pundit who openly mocks Fox News and CNN. Although most of the discussion is centered around The Colbert Report, this collection does not neglect either his best-selling book, I Am America (And So Can You!), or his public performances, including his incendiary 2006 White House Press Correspondents' Dinner speech.
