mflaxbart 's review for:

The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Homer by Mark T. Conard, William Irwin, Aeon J. Skoble
3.0

Enjoyable at times, tedious at others. Some of the essayists were barely able to work in more of than a few lines about The Simpsons, limply connecting it to ideas from a pet philosopher, and these essays, no matter how much they had to teach about philosophy, were mostly unentertaining, totally missing the point of the book. Other essays applied a specific philosophical lens to the show and were much more successful at both teaching and entertaining