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Wolcott, Gregory
Wolcott, Gregory
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"Shawn E. Klein’s edited collection Steve Jobs and Philosophy: For Those Who Think Different1—the most recent addition to the Popular Culture and Philosophy series—draws upon the insights of nearly twenty intellectuals to discuss “Steve Jobs’s life and work, and their impact on our culture and the way we live” (p. xii). The book’s contributions fall under four major sections that correspond to elements of Jobs’s well-known persona and Apple’s famous “Think Different” marketing campaign: craziness, troublemaking, rebellion, and nonconformity. None of these descriptors carries heavily positive connotations, though the book itself is a tribute to the man responsible for revolutionizing technology. The uneasy combination of both demonology and hagiography finds its ways into the tenor of many of the essays, although Klein notes, in his Introduction, that the book intends neither. Still, when dealing with a subject matter like Steve Jobs, I doubt it could be otherwise"
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