Research Catalog

Title

Comics as philosophy / edited by Jeff McLaughlin.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962-

Description

xix, 246 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Comic books, strips, etc > History and criticism
• Comic books, strips, etc > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 06-5249

ISBN

1578067944 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005004453

OCLC

57730849

Title

Comics as philosophy / edited by Jeff McLaughlin.

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index.

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Added Author

McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962-

Research Call Number

JFE 06-5249