This is the first book to explore the hold of TV series on our
lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier
argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture
throughout the world is transformative in its effects on the
activity of philosophy in everyday life. Drawing on Stanley
Cavell’s work on film and ordinary experience, Laugier contends
that we are deeply affected by the formative role played by the TV
series we watch, and by the ways they become interconnected with
our daily lives. The philosophical thinking embodied in series
empowers individuals in their capacity to experience,
understand and appropriate elements of the world, and to educate
themselves. Through our relationships with TV series, we develop
our own tastes and competences, which are constitutive of our
distinct experience of life. ‘Series-philosophy’ is thus a
democratizing force. It also offers us a new ethics, for morality
can be found not in general rules and abstract principles but in
the narrative texture of characters in everyday situations facing
particular ethical problems, and with whom we form attachments that
result in our moral education—in sometimes surprising ways.
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