About the book: 2010 / The incredibly popular series “House M.D.” is difficult to categorize into one genre, and its audience is so diverse that it can hardly be classified at all. Presented as a medical drama, it raises huge layers of a wide variety of philosophical topics: the characters and situations invented by intellectual screenwriters are so multifaceted and deep that they gave the opportunity to philosophers of modern America to write 18 original essays collected in this book. In the style of the ultimate Princeton-Plainsboro cynic, they reveal something of Sherlock Holmes, something of Nietzsche's superman, something of Socrates, and something of a Taoist sage, and House ends up not being nearly as bad as he might have been seem at first. The book went on sale in Russia only at the beginning of 2010. Its circulation was 3,000 copies. “House and philosophy on Wikipedia»