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Watchmen and Philosophy: A
Rorschach Test. Edited by Mark D. Wright.
Blackwell philosophy and popular culture; series editor William Irwin. Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. 240pp.
Paperback: ISBN-10: 0470396857 -
ISBN-13: 978-0470396858
Find in a
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Library of Congress: PN6728.W386
W38 2009
Dewey: 741.5/942 22
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[Table of Contents - PDF from publisher]
Acknowledgments: They Left it Entirely in My Hands ... ix
Introduction: A Rorschach Test ... 1
Part One - The
politics of power: Who watches the watchmen?
- The Superman Exists,
and He's American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power - Christopher Robichaud
... 5 [PDF from publisher]
- Can We Steer This
Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor - Jacob M. Held
... 19
- Super-Vigilantes and
the Keene Act - Tony Spanakos ... 33
- Superheroes and
Supermen: Finding
Nietzsche's Übermensch in Watchmen - J. Keeping
... 47
Part
Two - The Veidt plan: Watchmen and ethics
- Means, Ends, and the
Critique of Pure Superheroes
- J.
Robert Loftis ... 63
- The Virtues of Nite
Owl's Potbelly - Mark D. White
... 79
- Rorschach: When
Telling the Truth Is Wrong - Alex Nuttall
... 91
Part
Three - The metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan
- Dr.
Manhattan, I Presume? - James DiGiovanna
... 103
- A Timely Encounter:
Dr. Manhattan
and Henri Bergson - Christopher M.
Drohan ... 115
- Free Will and
Foreknowledge: Does
Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She Do Otherwise? - Arthur Ward
... 125
- I'm Just a Puppet Who
Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage - Andrew Terjesen
... 137
Part
Four - This is not your father's comic book
- "Why Don't You Go Read
a Book or Something?" Watchmen
as Literature - Aaron
Meskin ... 157
- Watchwomen - Sarah Donovan
and
Nick Richardson ... 173
- Hooded Justice and
Captain
Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo
- Robert
Arp ... 185
- What's so Goddamned
Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life's Way - Taneli Kukkonen ... 197
Contributors: Who Writes about the Watchmen? ...
215
Index: After the Maquerade ... 221 [PDF from publisher]
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