![]() X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse
ISBN: 978-0-470-41340-1
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272 pages
March 2009
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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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