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What bad is not

Breaking bad, apophatic and dramaturgic continua from creator to viewer, and a poetics of the philosophy of religion

Jesse Abbot

pp. 123-139

Abstract

In this chapter, I argue that Walter White can teach us about spiritual realities in terms of their phenomenological and textural aspects. I show that there is an overlap of scientism and religious literalism that can be found in Breaking Bad stories, and I further describe the fact that we have moved into discourse about a postmodern universe in which both Werner Heisenberg and Walter White/Heisenberg can hold court.

Publication details

Published in:

Arp Robert (2017) Philosophy and breaking bad. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 123-139

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40343-4_9

Full citation:

Abbot Jesse (2017) „What bad is not: Breaking bad, apophatic and dramaturgic continua from creator to viewer, and a poetics of the philosophy of religion“, In: R. Arp (ed.), Philosophy and breaking bad, Dordrecht, Springer, 123–139.