Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems | alterna-tv.com. When the AMC drama Mad Men debuted in July 2007, it immediately set the standard for quality television. With its well-crafted characters, detailed storylines that develop at a natural pace, examination of an industry that played a pivotal role in our cultural history and set during a time period that shaped modern society, the television series quickly succeeded in winning the Emmy Award for Best Drama not only in its first season but subsequent ones as well.
While those qualities have likewise made the show a critical darling and “must see” programming for television fans, Mad Men is also the type of series that is ripe for philosophical analysis as evidenced by the anthology book, Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). The characters on Mad Men are unlike those found on most television shows. Roger Sterling, the senior partner of advertising firm Sterling Cooper, is a prime example. Were Don Draper’s actions unethical? The Meaning of Mad Men: Philosophers Take on TV. Don Draper, meet Friedrich Nietzsche.
You might not think that the fictional ad exec from the critically acclaimed AMC drama Mad Men and the German philosopher have much in common, but consider this: Nietzsche believed happiness requires that a person forget the past in order to act boldly in the present — a methodology that Draper, who has denied his past by stealing a dead man's identity, seems to embrace. That allusion, and more, come from Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems — a book of essays that examines the show through a philosophical lens. In it, philosophy professors reference classic works of philosophy by the likes of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Simone de Beauvoir to explore topics like Draper's identity crisis, the ethical lapses of the advertising business and the burgeoning feminism of the 1960s.
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