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The Hunger Games And Philosophy: A Critique Of Pure Treason (2012)

by William Irwin(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1118065077 (ISBN13: 9781118065075)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Wiley

series

Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture

review 1: I am possibly teaching a HG special topics seminar next year(!) so I've been researching some textbooks to use (thank you, desk copies). This was fantastic. The philosophy is pretty 101-y, which is fine for an undergrad class, especially one in an English department taught by a non philosophy professor. Not every chapter is amazing, but most are really well done, and cover topics/philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, Kant, Butler, and a bunch of Greco-Roman philosophers whose names I certainly can't spell without looking at the book. Topics include class, gender, decision making, government, food, love, etc. It's really really neat, even if a lot of the authors use the same evidence from text to make their points. I actually couldn't put it down, but I'm also a ner... mored, so.
review 2: Some very good essays; some were okay; a couple just didn't jive for me. At times, I felt like the authors didn't explore their topics as deeply as I would have liked- I found myself interested in the essay's argument, but it didn't go far enough for me. I realize, though, that these essays are published for a general interest audience who may not already have a background in critical and philosophical theory, so I can understand some of those editing decisions. At other times, the author seemed to be "trying too hard" to be accessible. (Maybe it's just a picky personal preference that no one else shares, or maybe it's just an occupational hazard when writing for this kind of audience, but I didn't care for the excessively casual tone in one or two of the essays) All in all, an interesting read that brought up some ways of looking at The Hunger Games that I had never considered. less

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