| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 246 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Philosophy.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Philosophy in comics.
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HUMOR -- General.
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Philosophy in comics
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Philosophy
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Comics criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2005004453 |
| ISBN |
9781429460545 |
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1429460547 |
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