TV-Philosophy in Action

The Ethics and Politics of TV Series

By (author) Sandra Laugier

Extent: 256 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, Music & Performing Arts, Philosophy

Series: TV Philosophy

Language: English

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(October 2025)

ISBN: 9781804132272

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(June 2023)

ISBN: 9781804130926

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Synopsis
Contents
Contributing Authors

This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times.

TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier’s monthly columns published in the French journal Liberation. It is her contribution to the collective reflection on TV series produced by critics, theorists, and the vast mass of individual watchers who evaluate and discuss these programmes every day. The book brings together a selection of articles from Liberation, as well as longer pieces, to demonstrate ‘TV-Philosophy in action’: Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to a range of particularly salient TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. Arranged under a number of important themes-relating to politics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about our world-the book shows how TV series provide a rich resource for thinking about our lives, and places them centre-stage as works of art, and of thought, in their own right.

Foreword by William Rothman
Introduction and Acknowledgements
1. Perfectionism
2. The Second Wave: Gender, Race, and Class
3. Spoilers, Stories, Stars
4. Metaphysics
5. Serial Care
Bibliography
Serigraphy and Filmography
Index

By (author) Sandra Laugier

Other Titles in this Series

Chuck, Appearance and Reality

Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy

By (author) Kelly Dean Jolley

TV-Philosophy

How TV Series Change Our Thinking

By (author) Sandra Laugier Translated by Daniela Ginsburg

Global TV Series and the Political Imagination

Edited by Anastasia Krutikova Edited by Tatsiana Zhurauliova

Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Edited by David LaRocca Edited by Sandra Laugier

Detectorists

Feeling for the Past

By (author) Louise D’Arcens

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