Research Catalog

Title

X-Men and philosophy : astonishing insight and uncanny argument in the mutant X-verse / edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Housel, Rebecca.
• Wisnewski, Jeremy.

Description

xii, 251 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The X-Men are labelled 'mutants' for their powerful and special abilities. These abilities make them more powerful than all other humans, but the measure of a mutant lies in how he or she chooses to use their ability.

Series Statement

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Uniform Title

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Subject

• X-Men (Fictitious characters)
• Comic books, strips, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: You are about to embark on an X-perience with "the strangest heroes of all" -- X1: Origins : the X-factor in the existential -- The lure of the normal : who wouldn't want to be a mutant? / Patrick D. Hopkins -- Amnesia, personal identity, and the many lives of wolverine / Jason Southworth -- Is suicide always immoral? Jean Grey, Immanuel Kant, and The dark Phoenix saga / Mark D. White -- X-istential x-Men : Jews, supermen, and the literature of struggle / Jesse Kavaldo -- X2: Evolution : consciousness, conscience, and cure -- Mad genetics : the sinister side of biological mastery / Andrew Burnett -- Layla Miller knows stuff : how a butterfly can shoulder the world / George A. Dunn -- X-women and X-istence / Rebecca Housel -- Mutant rights, torture, and X-perimentation / Cynthia McWilliams -- When you know you're just a comic book character : deadpool / Joseph J. Darowski -- X3: United : human ethics and mutant morality in the X-verse -- Magneto, mutation, and morality / Richard Davis -- Professor X wants you / Christopher Robichaud -- Dirty hands and dirty minds : the ethics of mind reading and mindwriting / Andrew Terjesen -- The mutant cure or social change : debating disability / Ramona Ilea -- Mutants and the metaphysics of race / Jeremy Pierce -- X4: The last stand : war, technology, death, and mutantkind -- Mutant phenomonology / J. Jeremy Wisnewski -- War and peace, power and faith / Katherine E. Kirby -- High-tech mythology in X-Men / George Teschner.

ISBN

• 9780470413401 (pbk.)
• 0470413409 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008045526

OCLC

• 259263972
• SCSB-12405744

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library