Louis C.K. and Philosophy: You Don't Get to Be Bored (Popular Culture and Philosophy (99))

Charlie Rose Has Called Louis C.k. The Philosopher-king Of Comedy, And Many Have Detected Philosophical Profundity In His Material. Twenty-five Philosophers Examine The Wisdom Of Louis C.k. From A Variety Of Philosophical Perspectives. The Chapters Draw Upon C.k.'s Standup Comedy, The Show Louie, And C.k.'s Other Writings. One Writer Looks At The Different Meanings Of C.k.'s Statement, You're Gonna Be Dead Way Longer Than You Were Alive. One Chapter Shows The Affinity Of C.k.'s Sick Of Living This Bullshit Life With Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death. Another Pursues Louis's Thought That We May By Our Lack Of Moral Concern Live A Really Evil Life Without Thinking About It. C.k.'s Insistence That Things That Are Not Can't Be Points To The Philosophical Problem Of Nothingness In Relation To Being. His Religion Is Apathetic Agnostic, Conveyed In His Thought Experiment That God Began Work In 1982. Louis's Argument That You Can Have The Kind Of Body You Want If You Make Yourself Want A Disgusting, Shitty Body, Is The Stoic Ethics Of Epictetus. And, As C.k. Has Shown In So Many Ways, The Fact That We Re Soon Going To Die Has Its Funny Side. Everything's Amazing And Nobody Is Happy / Max Elder -- Sex Has Something Behind It / John Heaney -- When To Hate And When To Be Irate / Daniel Malloy -- On Being A Dead Person Who Hasn't Died Yet / Mark Ralkowski -- Just Want A Shitty Body / Bekka Williams -- You're Gonna Die / Ethan Mills -- Because Nothing Can't Be / Joseph R. Kirkland -- Should Jane Get To Be Bored? / Daniel Addison -- What Fuckin' Chance Does This Kid Have / Joseph Westfall -- On Crying Like A Bitch / Roberto Sirvent And Joel Avery -- Louis C.k.'s No-bullshit Philosphy / Marie Snyder -- Confronting The Forever Empty / Brandon Polite -- Why? Why? Why? / Joel Walmsley -- Louis C.k.'s God / Silas Morgan And Roberto Sirvent -- God Started In 1983 / Matt Destefano -- You're Not Starving / Phil Smolenski -- Louis's Little Belivies / Ryan Jawetz -- Believies Are Not Motavaties / Jason Dockstader -- The Playful Though Experiments Of Louis C.k. / Chris A. Kramer -- Feminists Can Take A Joke / Jennifer Mara -- If You're Not White, You're Missing Out / Myisha Cherry -- Sometimes Cartesian / Eric Scholl -- Louis C.k. Meets The Unconcsious / Duncan Reyburn -- An Hour / James Bliss. Edited By Mark Ralkowski. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-290) And Index. Contents A Note on "Louis" and "Louie" The "Other Shit" that Louis C.K. Wanted to Talk About I. Everybody Has a Competition in Their Brain 1. Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy 2. Sex Has Something Behind It 3. When to Hate and When to Be Irate II. Misery Is Wasted on the Miserable 4. On Being a Dead Person Who Hasn't Died Yet 5. Just Want a Shitty Body 6. You're Gonna Die III. Raising the Grown-Up They're Going to Be 7. Because Nothing Can't Be! 8. Should Jane Get to Be Bored? 9. What Fuckin' Chance Does a Kid Have? IV. That Knowledge that It's All for Nothing and You're Alone 10. On "Crying Like a Bitch" 11. Louis C.K.'s No-Bullshit Philosophy 12. Confronting the "Forever Empty" V. Did You Look in the Downstairs Bathroom? 13. Why? Why? Why? 14. Louis C.K.'s God 15. God Started in 1983 VI. Having a Lot of Beliefs and LIving by None of Them 16. You're Not Starving 17. Louis's Little Believies 18. Believies Are Not Motivaties VII. Take Some Responsibility for the Shitty Words You Want to Say 19. The Playful Thought Experiments of Louis C.K. 20. Feminists Can Take a Joke 21. If You're Not White, You're Missing Out VIII. Of Course but Maybe... 22. Sometimes Cartesian 23. Louis C.K. Meets the Unconscious 24. An Hour References Some Dead People Who Haven't Died Yet Index Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. “the philosopher-king of comedy,” and many have detected philosophical profundity in Louis's comedy, some of which has been watched tens of millions of times on YouTube and elsewhere. Louis C.K. and Philosophy is designed to help Louis's fans connect the dots between his pronouncements and living philosophical themes.Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of Louis C.K. from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The chapters draw upon C.K.'s standup comedy, the show Louie, and C.K.'s other writings. There is no attempt to fit Louis into one philosophical school; instead the authors bring out the diverse aspects of the thought of Louis C.K.One writer looks at the different meanings of C.K.'s statement, “You're gonna be dead way longer than you were alive.” Another explores how Louis knows when he's awake and when he's dreaming, taking a few tips from Descartes. One chapter shows the affinity of C.K.'s “sick of living this bullshit life” with Kierkegaard's “sickness unto death.” Another pursues Louis's thought that we may by our lack of moral concern “live a really evil life without thinking about it.'C.K.'s religion is'apathetic agnostic,'conveyed in his thought experiment that God began work in 1982.