Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy

Awaken the Social Assassin Within

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Paperback | 7 August 2012

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In a promotional video for the eighth season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David appears as Godzilla, walking through the streets of New York City, terrorizing everyone who sees him. People scream and run for their lives. Larry, meanwhile, has a quizzical look on his face and asks, “What, are you people nuts?”
What makes Larry a monster, and why doesn’t he know that he’s a monster? Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy discusses several answers to these questions.
This book revolves around Curb-Larry, the character that the real Larry David plays on HBO’s popular television series: his outlook on life, his unusual ways of interacting with people, his inability or unwillingness to conform to the world. Many of the chapters discuss ethical and existential issues, such as whether Larry is a “bad apple.”
Larry doesn’t ask questions about free will, or wonder whether the world outside our minds really exists because he’s more like Socrates than Descartes. He tells bitter truths about how we live our lives. There''s something heroic about Larry''s independence from social conventions, and something tragic about his tendency to hurt people with his frankness. It''s hard not to ask, should we curb our enthusiasm?

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Pretty Pretty Pretty Far Beyond Good and Evil	p. ix
There are a Few Different Realities Here	p. 1
Deep Inside You Know You're Him	p. 3
Larry David as...Himself?	p. 25
What Would Larry Do?	p. 43
Idling as a Way of Life	p. 45
People Just Don't Do that	p. 59
Larry's Search for Meaning	p. 73
What, No Good?	p. 75
Judaism, Where are you?	p. 89
The Whole Affirmative Action Thing	p. 105
Do you Mind if My Caucasian Mentions the N-Word?	p. 107
What Kind of Men Are Larry and Jeff?	p. 121
Yelling for Society, for Everybody	p. 137
He's Applying the Golden Rule. Are You?	p. 139
That's a Problem, Not a Gift	p. 155
Is Larry a Good Apply?	p. 171
How to Philosophize with a 5 Wood	p. 173
Maybe Authenticity Isn't for Everyone	p. 189
Having Said That...	p. 203
Should We Curb our Enthusiasm?	p. 205
The Special Section	p. 221
Curbology: A Glossary of Curb-isms	p. 223
Bald and Un-Bald Brothers and Sisters	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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