E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book
The Dark Knight of the Soul
E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book
Reihe: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
ISBN: 978-0-470-53277-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions?
Is Batman better than Superman?
If everyone followed Batman's example,
would Gotham be a better place?
What is the Tao of the Bat?
Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear incomic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. Whatphilosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keepGotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books,television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores howthe Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moralresponsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries toavenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this capedcrusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle,Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?
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Acknowledgments: The Oscar Speech George Clooney Never Got to Make.
Introduction: Riddle Me This...
Part One: Does the Dark Knight Always Do Right?
1. Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker (Mark D. White)?
2. Is It Right to Make a Robin (James DiGiovanna)?
3. Batman's Virtuous Hatred (Stephen Kershnar).
Part Two: Law, Justice, and the Social Order: Where DoesBatman Fit In?
4. No Man's Land: Social Order in Gotham City and New Orleans(Brett Chandler Patterson).
5. Governing Gotham (Tony Spanakos).
6. The Joker's Wild: Can We Hold the Clown Prince MorallyResponsible (Christopher Robichaud).
Part Three: Origins and Ethics: Becoming The CapedCrusader.
7. Batman's Promise (Randall M. Jensen).
8. Should Bruce Wayne Have Become Batman (Mahesh Ananth and BenDixon)?
9. What Would Batman Do? Bruce Wayne as Moral Exemplar (RyanIndy Rhodes and David Kyle Johnson).
Part Four: Who is the Batman? (Is That a TrickQuestion?)
10. Under the mask: How Any Person Can Become Batman (Sarah KI.Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson).
11. Could Batman Have Been the Joker (Sam Cowling and ChrisRagg)?
12. Batman's Identity Crisis and Wittgenstein's FamilyResemblance (Jason Southworth).
13. What Is It Like to Be a Batman (Ron Novy)?
Part Five: Being The Vat: Insights From Existentialism andTaoism.
14. Alfred, the Dark Knight of Faith: Batman and Kierkegaard(Christopher M. Drohan).
15. Dark Nights and the Call of conscience (Jason J.Howard).
16. Batman's Confrontation with Death, Angst, and Freedom (DavidM. Hart).
Part Six: Friend,Father... Rival? The Many Roles of theBat.
17. Why Batman IS Better than Superman (Galen Foresman).
18. World's Finest...Friends? Batman, Superman, and the Natureof Friendship (Daniel P. Malloy).
19. Leaving the Shadow of the Bat: Aristotle, Kant, and DickGrayson on Moral Education (Carsten Fogh Nielsen).
20. The Tao of the Bat (Bat-Tzu).
Contributors.
Index.