X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse
by Editor: William Irwin (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ); Editor: Rebecca Housel; Editor: J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-05-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Is mind reading an invasion of privacy?What's wrong with genetic experimentation?How many identities can one person have?Are the X-Men advocates of civil rightsand social change?Do mutants have "human" rights?X-Men is one of the most popular comic-book franchises ever, captivating millions with its teeming X-Verse of genetic mutants who have been unleashing their unique special powers in the service of both good and evil since 1963. Focusing on identity and personal conflict as much as action and adventure, this bestselling series is full of complex characters and storylines that are deeply influenced by important philosophical questions. Through philosophical greats like Aristotle, Sartre, Camus, Levinas, and others, X-Men and Philosophy shows how this remarkable series speaks not only to generations of pop culture audiences, but to the very heart of the human condition.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments: Superheroic Thanks to X-tra Special Humans and Mutants Alike! | |
| Introduction: You are about to embark on an X-perience with "the strangest heroes of all" | |
| The X-Factor In The Existential | |
| The Lure of the Normal: Who Wouldn't Want to be a Mutant | |
| Amnesia, Personal Identity and the Many Lives of Wolverine | |
| Is Suicide Always Moral: Jean Grey, Kant, and The Dark Phoenix Saga | |
| X-istential X-Men: Jews, Supermen and the Literature of Struggle | |
| Consciousness, Conscience, And Cure | |
| Mad Genetics: The Sinister Side of Biological Mastery | |
| Layla Miller Knows Stuff: How a Butterfly Can Shoulder the World | |
| X-Women and X-istence | |
| Mutant Rights, Torture and X-perimentation | |
| When You Know You're Just a Comic Book Character: Deadpool | |
| Human Ethics And Mutant Morality In The X-Verse | |
| Magneto, Mutation and Morality | |
| Professor X Wants You | |
| Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mindreading and Mindwriting | |
| The Mutant Cure or Social Change: Debating Disability | |
| Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race | |
| War, Technology, Death, And Mutant-Kind | |
| Mutant Phenomonology | |
| War and Peace, Power and Faith | |
| High-Tech Mythology in X-Men | |
| Contributors: And Now, We'd Like to Introduce the X-Perts: Ladies and Gentleman, the Amazing, Astonishing, Uncanny, Ultimate Authors from Xavier's School for Gifted Philosophers! | |
| Index | |
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