Description This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy.
Popular Culture is germane to philosophy and contemporary politics because television/movie creators frequentl.
With regard to contemporary American politics, in addition to Star Trek, it draws on the television series Game of Thrones, Veep, House of Cards, and The Man in the High Castle.
To adjudicate between continental and analytic philosophy this book on relies on the broadcast iterations of Star Trek, as well as Nazi cinema.
Art (particularly Popular culture) becomes an important source in identifying the way that people reason about the world and how they perceive political elites reasoning in the world. g., voting studies) and toward an approach that seeks to analyze the reasons of the world that motivate/shape social and political decisions.
Such an approach would decisively move the social sciences away from an emphasis on statistically significant patterns of human behavior (e.
Secondly, the role of social science is to cogitate, explore, identify the reasons of the world that shape social, political norms.
Thus, in complete contradistinction to analytic philosophy, there is no bifurcation between the empirical and the normative - to exist is to have normative value.
Two key points can be drawn from Kreines\'s position: first, normative values are embedded in reality.
Art allows us to conceptualize, understand, speculate about the grooves (reasons) of the Absolute.
Thus, similar to the fact that gravity is curves in the space-time continuum along which matter moves - reasons are the grooves in the Absolute along which human decision-making occurs.
Reasons of the world are reasons of the Hegelian Absolute.
Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds that reason in the world metaphysically exists.
It turns to art, more specifically Popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy.
Description This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy
