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X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse (0470413409) cover image
X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse
William Irwin (Editor), Rebecca Housel (Editor), J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-41340-1
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272 pages
March 2009
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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".

X1-ORIGINS: THE X-FACTOR IN THE EXISTENTIAL.

1. The Lure of the Normal: Who Wouldn’t Want to be a Mutant (Patrick Hopkins)?

2. Amnesia, Personal Identity and the Many Lives of Wolverine (Jason Southworth).

3. Is Suicide Always Moral: Jean Grey, Kant, and The Dark Phoenix Saga (Mark D. White).

4. X-istential X-Men: Jews, Supermen and the Literature of Struggle (Jesse Kavaldo).

X2-EVOLUTION: CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSCIENCE, AND CURE.

5. Mad Genetics: The Sinister Side of Biological Mastery (Andrew Burnett).

6. Layla Miller Knows Stuff: How a Butterfly Can Shoulder the World (George A. Dunn).

7. X-Women and X-istence (Rebecca Housel).

8. Mutant Rights, Torture and X-perimentation (Cynthia McWilliams).

9. When You Know You’re Just a Comic Book Character: Deadpool (Joseph J. Darowski).

X3-UNITED: HUMAN ETHICS AND MUTANT MORALITY IN THE X-VERSE.

10. Magneto, Mutation and Morality (Richard Davis.

11. Professor X Wants You (Christopher Robichaud).

12. Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mindreading and Mindwriting (Andrew Terjesen.

13. The Mutant Cure or Social Change: Debating Disability (Ramona Ilea).

14. Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race (Jeremy Pierce).

X4-THE LAST STAND: WAR, TECHNOLOGY, DEATH, AND MUTANT-KIND.

15. Mutant Phenomonology (J. Jeremy Wisnewski).

16. War and Peace, Power and Faith (Katherine E. Kirby).

17. High-Tech Mythology in X-Men (George Teschner).

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!

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