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Auburn philosophy professor Kelly Jolley discusses his upcoming book on cult TV show ‘Chuck’

I feel bad about it now, but I’ve never seen Chuck. I don’t know a lot about it.

But Kelly Jolley does.

He also knows a lot about philosophy.

Which is why he was God’s obvious choice to write the book that the critically-acclaimed show’s philosophical themes have apparently been begging to fill since 2012, when NBC decided that five years had been more than generous.

It’s not the first Love of Wisdom / Must See TV cocktail the celebrated Auburn philosophy professor (and grateful TWER contributor) has poured for academia; he contributed a chapter on the obvious “similar, contrapuntal structure” between Seinfeld and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (which he’s also written a book about) for 1999′s well-received “The Philosophy of Seinfeld.