30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want To Go to There.(Brief article)(Book review)

30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want To Go to There. Wiley. (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture). Aug. 2010. c.240p, ed. by J. Jeremy Wisnewski. index. ISBN 978-0-470-57558-1. pap. $17.95. PHIL

This is the 21st volume in this series connecting specific pieces of pop culture with the critical techniques of philosophy. There's nothing wrong with making philosophy palatable to neophytes--many of us remember our first philosophy course in college and how it left us seeing the world differently--but the writings in this collection resolutely trivialize both their subject and the approach. As essays on philosophy, the pieces …