Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think!

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents ix
• 1: “what's All This Then” the Introduction 1
• Philosophical Aspects of Monty Python 11
• 2: “life's a Piece of Shit”: Heresy, Humanism, and Heroism in Monty Python's Life of Brian 13
• 3: What Mr. Creosote Knows About Laughter 25
• 4: The Limits of Horatio's Philosophy 37
• 5: Why is an Argument Clinic Less Silly Than an Abuse Clinic or a Contradiction Clinic? 53
• 6: A Very Naughty Boy: Getting Right with Brian 65
• 7: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Philosophy, Gender, and Society 83
• 8: Against Transcendentalism: Monty Python's the Meaning of Life and Buddhism 93
• 9: Is There Life After Monty Python's the Meaning of Life? 111
• Aspects of Pythonic Philosophy “no Score, but There's Certainly No Lack of Excitement Here …” 123
• 10: God Forgive Us 125
• 11: Monty Python and David Hume on Religion 141
• 12: Madness in Monty Python's Flying Circus 153
• 13: Monty Python and the Search for the Meaning of Life 161
• 14: Existentialism in Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre 173
• 15: “my Brain Hurts!” 187
• 16: Why is a Philosopher like a Python? How Philosophical Examples Work 201
• Pythonic Aspects of Philosophy: “there's Archimedes, and I Think He's Had an Idea!” 215
• 17: Tractatus Comedo Philosophicus 217
• 18: Monty Python's Utterly Devastating Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy 231
• 19: Word and Objection: How Monty Python Destroyed Modern Philosophy 243
• 20: My Years with Monty Python, Or, What's So Funny About Language, Truth, and Analyticity? 253
• 21: Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python 265
• Everyone Remembers Their First Time: About the Authors, Nearly All of Whom Have an 'S' in Their Name 277
• What Was All That, Then? 283