Reflections on Popular Culture and Philosophy

A. Christian
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Abstract Contributions to the philosophical genre of popular culture and philosophy aim to popularize philosophical ideas with the help of references to the products of popular (mass) culture with TV series like The Simpsons, Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix and Jurassic Park, or popular music groups like Metallica. While being commercially successful, books in this comparatively new genre are often criticized for lacking scientific rigor, providing a shallow cultural commentary, and having little didactic value to foster philosophical understanding. This paper discusses some of these methodological and didactic objections and seeks to encourage a constructive discussion of concerns with the genre. It shows how the genre similar to previous attempts to foster public understanding of philosophy and that it is a methodologically viable approach to reach a broad range of readers with diverse informational preferences and educational backgrounds. Considering what makes this approach to the popularization of philosophical thinking successful will shed light on some of the criteria for popularization of philosophy in general.
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大众文化与哲学反思
对大众文化和哲学这一哲学流派的贡献旨在通过参考大众文化的产品来普及哲学思想,比如电视剧《辛普森一家》,好莱坞大片《黑客帝国》和《侏罗纪公园》,或者流行音乐团体《金属乐队》。虽然在商业上取得了成功,但这种相对较新的类型的书籍经常被批评为缺乏科学的严谨性,提供肤浅的文化评论,并且缺乏促进哲学理解的教学价值。本文讨论了这些方法和教学上的反对意见,并试图鼓励对这一流派的关注进行建设性的讨论。它表明,这一流派与之前培养公众对哲学的理解的尝试是如何相似的,这是一种在方法上可行的方法,可以接触到具有不同信息偏好和教育背景的广泛读者。思考是什么使这种哲学思想的普及取得成功,将有助于揭示一般哲学普及的一些标准。
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