The God Tube: Uncovering the Hidden Spiritual Message in Pop Culture

by James Lawler

Beginning with The Simpsons and ending with The Da Vinci Code, the entertaining sections in this book uncover profound philosophical and religious ideas in pop culture. Each work covered contains a challenge to both standard religious orthodoxy and secular science. In The Simpsons Movie, although Homer must be dragged off his couch to church, he experiences a spiritual epiphany with an Inuit shaman woman. In the film of The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon proposes that “the human is the divine.” The author makes a striking case here for pop culture as a hotbed of alternative thinking.

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2008

About the author

James Lawler is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of The Existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, and IQ, Heritability, and Racism, as well as articles on Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He is editor of: Dialectics of the U.S. Constitution: Selected Writings of Mitchell Franklin, to be published this year by MEP Press, Minnesota.

Reviews

[Hendrik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing guide to philosophy, by my old professor from Buffalo.