The Onion and Philosophy

Fake News Story True Alleges Indignant Area Professor

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The Onion, with its unique brand of deadpan satirical humor, has become a familiar part of the American scene. The newspaper has a readership of over a million, and it reaches millions more with its spin-off books and The Onion News Network. The Onion has shown us that standard ways of thinking about the news have their grotesque and silly side, and this invites philosophical examination. Twenty-one philosophers were commissioned to figure out just what makes the Onion so truthful and insightful. Are the Onion writers truly cynical, or just cynically faking it? Does the Onion really have a serious point of view on religion? On sex? On politics? Who cares what Area Man thinks? If everyone's so dumb, how come so many Onion readers keep on laughing at how dumb they are?

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Serials Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture

For Crying Out Loud	p. ix
Science and Technology	p. 1
A Vice Worse than Stupidity	p. 3
Pope Admits: "God Ain't Said Shit to Me"	p. 15
Is My Kid Sitting Too Close to His Robot?	p. 33
Opinion	p. 39
Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck	p. 41
What It Is to Be an Asshole	p. 53
God versus The Onion	p. 63
Politics	p. 77
Philosophers Interested In Area Man But Not In Gay Way	p. 79
Would Diogenes Have Read The Onion?	p. 87
There's Something Queer about The Onion	p. 99
World	p. 111
The Daily Form	p. 113
Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell	p. 119
Existential Times	p. 131
Business	p. 145
Sarcastic Bastards, Useless Bullshit, and Murder	p. 146
The Green Onion	p. 159
Local	p. 175
Area Man Realizes Error of Ways after Reading Onion Article	p. 177
Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up	p. 185
News Archive	p. 195
Area God Hospitalized, Slowly Dying	p. 197
Peeling the Layers of Truth	p. 209
Candide's Legacy	p. 219
Entertainment	p. 231
Fake News Story Not True	p. 233
A Philosophical Joke Book?	p. 247
Liar, Liar	p. 257
America's Finest Philosophers	p. 267
Index of Onion Articles Mentioned in This Book	p. 273
Inside The Onion and Philosophy	p. 283
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