Date

2007

Editor

Weed, Jennifer Hart (Editor); Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Editor); Weed, Ronald L. (Editor)

Type

Book

Keyword

24 (Television program); Philosophy

URI

https://digitalcollections.tyndale.ca/handle/20.500.12730/2470

Citation

Weed, Jennifer Hart, Richard Davis, and Ronald L Weed. 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. (The Blackwell Philosophy and Popculture Series)

Table of Contents

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M. Classified: 24 -- 1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M. Dedication: to Edgar -- 2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M. If you don't know 24, you don't know Jack! / Tom Morris -- 3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M. CTU orientation / Ronald Weed -- 4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M. Acknowledgements: Chloe, we need you! -- 5:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M. Special agent Jack Bauer -- 5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M. What would Jack Bauer do? Moral dilemmas and moral theory in 24 / Randall M. Jensen -- 6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M. Between hero and villain: Jack Bauer and the problem of "dirty hands" / Stephen de Wijze -- 7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M. Beyond the call of duty / Richard Davis -- 8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M. Truth and illusion in 24: Jack Bauer, Dionysus in the world of Apollo / Stephen Snyder -- 9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. The Oval Office and the halls of power -- 9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M. President Palmer and the invasion of China: The beginning of a just war? / Jennifer Hart Weed -- 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Jack Bauer as anti-Eichmann and scourge of political liberalism / Brandon Claycomb and Greig Mulberry -- 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Palmer's pickle: Why couldn't he stomach it? / Georgia Testa -- 12:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. CTU Headquarters -- 12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. The ethics of torture in 24: Shockingly banal / Dónal P. O' Mathúna -- 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Loyalty and the "war of all against all" in 24 / Eric M. Rovie -- 2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. Who dares sins: Jack Bauer and moral luck / Rob Lawlor -- 3:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Moles, double-agents, and terrorists -- 3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. Living in a world of suspicion: The epistemology of mistrust / Scott Calef -- 4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. The cruel cunning of reason: The modern/postmodern conflict in 24 / Terrence Kelly -- 5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. The knowledge game can be torture / R. Douglas Geivett -- 6:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. Technology, objectification, and the clock -- 6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M. How the cell phone changed the world and made 24 / Read Mercer Schuchardt -- 7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. 24 and the ethics of objectification / Robert Arp and John Carpenter -- 8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. Jack in double time: 24 in light of aesthetic theory / Paul A. Cantor -- 9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. Classified: CTU personnel -- 10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M. Classified: Assets and sources -- 11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M. Classified: The codes.

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing

Copyright Notice

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Rights License

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Rights License Link

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Alternative Title

The World According to Jack