Twin Peaks and Philosophy: That's Damn Fine Philosophy!
β Scribed by Frost, Mark;Greene, Richard;Lynch, David;Robison-Greene, Rachel
- Publisher
- Open Court
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Series
- Popular culture and philosophy 119
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Chicago, Illinois
- ISBN
- 0812699874
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β¦ Synopsis
2017 saw the triumphant return of the weird and haunting TV show Twin Peak s, with most of the original cast, after a gap of twenty-five years. Twin Peaks and Philosophy finally answers that puzzling question: What is Twin Peaks really about? Twin Peaks is about evil in various forms, and poses the question: What's the worst kind of evil? Can the everyday evil of humans in a small mountain town ever be as evil as the evil of alien supernatural beings? Or is the evil of non-humans actually less threatening because it's so strange and unaccountable? And does the influence of uncanny forces somehow excuse the crimes committed by regular folks? Some Twin Peaks characters try to confine evil by sticking to their own moral code, as in the cast of Albert Rosenfeld, who refuses to disguise his feelings and upsets everyone by his forthright honesty.
Twin Peak s is about responsibility, both legal and moral. Who is really responsible for the death...
β¦ Subjects
Lynch, David, -- 1946
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