Popular culture and philosophy #1

Act I : The characters, aka "The New York four" -- Jerry and Socrates : the examined life? / William Irwin -- George's failed quest for happiness : an Aristotelian analysis / Daniel Barwick -- Elaine Benes : feminist icon or just one of the boys? / Sarah E. Worth -- Kramer and Kierkegaard : stages on life's way / William Irwin -- Act II : Seinfeld and the philosophers -- Making something out of nothing : Seinfeld, sophistry, and the Tao / Eric Bronson -- Plato or Nietzsche? : Time, essence and eternal recurrence in Seinfeld / Mark T. Conard -- Seinfeld, subjectivity, and Sartre / Jennifer McMahon -- Wittgenstein and Seinfeld on the commonplace / Kelly Dean Jolley -- Act III : Untimely mediations by the water cooler -- Costanza maneuver : is it rational for George to "do the opposite"? / Jason Holt -- Peterman and the ideological mind : paradoxes of subjectivity / Norah Martin -- Secret of Seinfeld's humor : the significance of the insignificant / Jorge J.E. Garcia -- Act IV : Is there anything wrong with that? -- Seinfeld and the moral life / Robert A. Epperson -- Virtue ethics and TV's Seinfeld / Aeon J. Skoble -- Final episode : is doing nothing something? / Theodore Schick, Jr