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Comics as philosophy
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Comics as philosophy

Author: Jeff McLaughlin
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st ed
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeff McLaughlin
ISBN: 1578067944 9781578067947
OCLC Number: 57730849
Description: xix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Jeff McLaughlin.
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