Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?ISBN: 978-1-118-01809-5
256 pages
March 2013, Wiley-Blackwell
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Contents
Introduction: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane … It’s Philosophy!
Part One: The Big Blue Boy Scout: Ethics, Judgment, and Reason 3
1- Moral Judgment: The Power That Makes Superman Human - Mark D. White
2 -Action Comics! Superman and Practical Reason - Brian Feltham
3 -Can the Man of Tomorrow Be the Journalist of Today? - Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman
4 -Could Superman Have Joined the Third Reich? The Importance and Shortcomings of Moral Upbringing - Robert Sharp
Part Two: Truth, Justice, and American Way: What Do They Mean?
5 -Clark Kent Is Superman! The Ethics of Secrecy - Daniel P. Malloy
6 -Superman and Justice - Christopher Robichaud
7- Is Superman an American Icon? - Andrew Terjesen
Part Three: The Will to Superpower: Nietzsche, the Übermensch, and Existentialism
8 -Rediscovering Nietzsche’s Übermensch in Superman as a Heroic Ideal - Arno Bogaerts
9 -Superman or Last Man: The Ethics of Superpower - David Gadon
10 -Superman: From Anti-Christ to Christ-Type - Adam Barkman
11 -Superman Must Be Destroyed! Lex Luthor as Existentialist Anti-Hero - Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas Richardson
Part Four: The Ultimate Hero: What Do We Expect from Superman?
12- Superman’s Revelation: The Problem of Violence in Kingdom Come - David Hatfield
13 -A World Without a Clark Kent? - Randall M. Jensen
14- The Weight of the World: How Much Is Superman Morally Responsible For? - Audrey L. Anton
Part Five: Superman and Humanity: A Match Made in Krypton?
15 -Superman and Man: What a Kryptonian Can Teach Us About Humanity - Leonard Finkelman
16- Can the Man of Steel Feel Our Pain? Sympathy and Superman - Andrew Terjesen
17- World’s Finest Philosophers: Superman and Batman on Human Nature - Carsten Fogh Nielsen
Part Six: Of Superman and Superminds: Who Is Superman, Anyway?
18 -“It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s … Clark Kent?” Superman and the Problem of Identity - Nicolas Michaud
19- Superman Family Resemblance - Dennis Knepp
20- Why Superman Should Not Be Able to Read Minds - Mahesh Ananth
Contributors: Trapped in the Philosophy Zone - Index: From Brainaic’s Files