True Detective and Philosophy : A Deeper Kind of Darkness (Paperback)

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True Detective and Philosophy: A Deeper Kind of Darkness

Introduction: Welcome to the Psychosphere

Jacob Graham and Tom Sparrow

Part One. “It’s All One Ghetto, Man, Giant Gutter in Outer Space”: Pessimism and Anti-Natalism

1. Why Life Rather Than Death? Answers from Rustin Cohle and Arthur Schopenhauer

Sandra Shapshay

2. Grounding Carcosa: Cosmic Horror and Philosophical Pessimism in True Detective

Christopher Mountenay

3. Hart and Cohle: The Hopeful Pessimism of True Detective

Joshua Foa Dienstag

4. Loving Rust’s Pessimism: Rationalism and Emotion in True Detective Season One

Rick Elmore

5. Rust’s Anti-Natalism: The Moral Imperative to “Opt Out of a Raw Deal”

Chris Byron

Part Two. “We Get the World We Deserve”: Cruelty, Violence, Evil, and Justice

6. Where is the Cruelty in True Detective?

G. Randolph Mayes

7. Nevermind: Subjective and Objective Violence in Vinci

Luke Howie

8. Naturalism, Evil, and the Moral Monster: The Evil Person in True Detective

Peter Brian Barry

9. “But I Do Have a Sense of Justice:” Law and Justice in the Bleak World of Vinci

Beau Mullen

Part Three. “Everybody’s Nobody”: Consciousness, Existence, and Identity

10. A Dream Inside a Locked Room: The Illusion of Self

Evan Thompson

11. I Am Not Who I Used to Be, But Am I Me? Personal Identity and the Narrative of Rust

Andrew M. Winters

12. The Light is Winning

Sarah K. Donovan

13. The Tragic Misstep: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Last Midnight

Daniel P. Malloy

Part Four. “This is My Least Favorite Life”: Noir, Tragedy, and Philosopher-Detectives

14. The Tragedy of True Detective Season Two: Living Our “Least Favorite Lives”

Alison Horbury

15. The Noir Detective and the City

Chuck Ward

16. Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero

Daniel Tutt

Part Five. “Time is a Flat Circle”: Time in True Detective

17. Time is a Flat Circle: Nietzsche’s Concept of Eternal Recurrence

Lawrence J. Hatab

18. Eternal Recurrence and the Philosophy of the “Flat Circle”

Paul DiGeorgio