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Title:
Dr. Seuss and philosophy : oh, the thinks you can think! / edited by Jacob M. Held.
Author:
Held, Jacob M., 1977-
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.
Call Number:
PS3513.E2 Z65 2011
ISBN:
9781442203112
Physical Description:
xxii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Oh, the places you'll go! : the examined, happy life / My troubles are going to have troubles with me : Schopenhauer, pessimism, and Nietzsche / Gertrude McFuzz should've read Marx, or sneetches of the world unite / Socratic Seuss : intellectual integrity and truth-orientation / Neither here, nor there, nor anywhere? / McElligot's pool : epistemology (with fish!) / On beyond modernity, or Conrad and a postmodern alphabet / From there to here, from here to there, diversity is everywhere / What would you do if your mother asked you? : a brief introduction to ethics / Horton hears you, too! : Seuss and Kant on respecting persons / Pragmatist ethics with John Dewey, Horton, and the lorax / The Grinch's change of heart : whodunit? / Thidwick the big-hearted bearer of property rights / Rebellion in Sala-ma-sond : the social contract and a turtle named Mack / Whose egg is it, really? : property rights and distributive justice / It's not personal , it's just bizzyneuss : business ethics, the company, and its stakeholders / Speaking for business, speaking for trees : business and environment in The lorax / Dr. Seuss meets philosophical aesthetics
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