Richard Gilmore is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Concordia College, USA. He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein’s Method in Philosophical Investigations, Doing Philosophy at the Movies, and Postmodern Movies: Neo-Comic Tragedies, Neo-Noirs, Neo-Westerns.

• Introduction. The Search for Wisdom.- Part I. The Coens on Comedy and Tragedy.- 1. The Coens’ Tragic Comedy: The Big Lebowski.- 2. The Coens’ Comic Tragedy: A Serious Man.- Part II. Philosophy and Film as Spiritual Exercises.- 3. Maximus as Stoic Warrior in Gladiator.- 4. Jack Crabb as Divagating Skeptic in Little Big Man.- 5. The Strange Attraction of the Epicurean Swerve in My Dinner with André.- Part III. Sublime Conversations.- 6. Sublime Conversations in Movies.- 7. Transcendental Conversations in Movies.- Part IV. Conclusion.- 8.

Richard Gilmore is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Concordia College, USA. He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein’s Method in Philosophical Investigations, Doing Philosophy at the Movies, and Postmodern Movies: Neo-Comic Tragedies, Neo-Noirs, Neo-Westerns.

• Introduction. The Search for Wisdom.- Part I. The Coens on Comedy and Tragedy.- 1. The Coens’ Tragic Comedy: The Big Lebowski.- 2. The Coens’ Comic Tragedy: A Serious Man.- Part II. Philosophy and Film as Spiritual Exercises.- 3. Maximus as Stoic Warrior in Gladiator.- 4. Jack Crabb as Divagating Skeptic in Little Big Man.- 5. The Strange Attraction of the Epicurean Swerve in My Dinner with André.- Part III. Sublime Conversations.- 6. Sublime Conversations in Movies.- 7. Transcendental Conversations in Movies.- Part IV. Conclusion.- 8.

Richard Gilmore is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Concordia College, USA. He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein’s Method in Philosophical Investigations, Doing Philosophy at the Movies, and Postmodern Movies: Neo-Comic Tragedies, Neo-Noirs, Neo-Westerns.

• Introduction. The Search for Wisdom.- Part I. The Coens on Comedy and Tragedy.- 1. The Coens’ Tragic Comedy: The Big Lebowski.- 2. The Coens’ Comic Tragedy: A Serious Man.- Part II. Philosophy and Film as Spiritual Exercises.- 3. Maximus as Stoic Warrior in Gladiator.- 4. Jack Crabb as Divagating Skeptic in Little Big Man.- 5. The Strange Attraction of the Epicurean Swerve in My Dinner with André.- Part III. Sublime Conversations.- 6. Sublime Conversations in Movies.- 7. Transcendental Conversations in Movies.- Part IV. Conclusion.- 8.