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Comics as philosophy / edited by Jeff McLaughlin

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Comic books, strips, etc. - Moral and ethical aspects.; Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism.
Summary
"Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels that exercise social realism, to European adventure classics."--BOOK JACKET.
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Comics as philosophy / edited by Jeff McLaughlin. - 1st ed.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,
246 pages
2005 English Book 8
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Title
  • Comics as philosophy /​ edited by Jeff McLaughlin.
Other Authors
  • McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962-
Edition
  • 1st ed.
Published
  • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Physical Description
  • xix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
  • What if? : DC's crisis and Leibnizian possible worlds /​ Jeff McLaughlin
  • Describing and discarding "comics" as an impotent act of philosophical rigor /​ Robert C. Harvey
  • "No harm in horror" : ethical dimensions of the postwar comic book controversy /​ Amy Kiste Nyberg
  • Truth be told : authorship and the creation of the black Captain America /​ Stanford W. Carpenter
  • Plato, Spider-Man and the meaning of life /​ Jeremy Barris
  • Modernity, race, and the American superhero /​ Aldo Regalado
  • Deconstructing the hero /​ Iain Thomson
  • Jean-Paul Sartre meets Enid Coleslaw : existential themes in Ghost World /​ Laura Canis and Paul Canis
  • Making the abstract concrete : how a comic can bring to life the central problems of environmental philosophy /​ Kevin de Laplante
  • The good government according to Tintin : long live old Europe? /​ Pierre Skilling
  • Drawn into 9/​11, but where have all the superheroes gone? /​ Terry Kading.
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index.
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 1578067944 (alk. paper)
Dewey Number
  • 741.5/​09
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Libraries Australia ID
  • 26744659
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