Research Catalog

Title

How I met your mother and philosophy : being and awesomeness / edited by Lorenzo von Matterhorn.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Matterhorn, Lorenzo von
• Matterhorn, Lorenzo von, 1974-

Description

vi, 235 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of essays by philosophers about the television program "How I Met Your Mother," analyzing the personalities and behavior of its various characters from a moral and philosophical point of view.

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 81

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy v. 81.

Subjects

• Trivia and miscellanea
• Philosophy > Miscellanea
• How I met your mother (Television program)

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why on earth do we love Barney? / Bence Nanay -- You too can awesomize yourself / Kris Goffin -- Me! Me! Me! / Thomas Ainsworth -- The most amazing, strong, independent woman Barney has ever banged / Amanda Ypma -- Barney's magical world of self-deception / Carter Hardy -- The bro code as a relational starter / Frank G. Kariosis -- Ted's cockamouse flies at dusk / M. Chris Sardo -- Smoking subs and eating joints / Miguel Ángel Sebastián and Manolo Martinez -- Telling each other everything / Jordan Pascoe -- Why you should never, never love thy neighbor / Radu Uszkai and Emanuel Socaciu -- A tale of two feminist icons / Tina Talsma -- The legen ... wait-for-it ... dary moment / Maryam Babur -- Is it irrational to wait for the slutty pumpkin? / Tobias Hainz and Yvonne Würz -- Barney Stinson's theory of truth / Joe Slater -- The pick-up game / Bart van Beek -- Telling your life story / Elize de Mul -- Awesome logic for the possimpible world / Michela Bordignon.

ISBN

• 0812698355 (pbk.)
• 9780812698350 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 843533024
• SCSB-11156265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library