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McLaughlin, Jeff, ed. Comics as Philosophy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 256pp. ISBN 1578067944 (cloth).

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  • Acknowledgmants ... ix
  • Introduction ... xi
  • What If? DC's Crisis and Leibnitzian Possible Worlds - JEFF McLAUGHLIN ... 3
  • Describing and Discarding "Comics" as an Impotent Act of Philosophical Rigor - ROBERT C. HARVEY ... 14
  • "No Harm in Horror": Ethical Dimensions of the Postwar Comic Book Controversy - AMY KISTE NYBERG ... 27
  • Truth be Told: Authorship and the Creation of the Black Captain America: STANFORD W. CARPENTER ... 46
  • Plato, Spider-Man, and the Meaning of Life - JEREMY BARRIS ... 63
  • Modernity, Race, and the American Superhero - ALDO REGALADO ... 84
  • Deconstructing the Hero - IAIN THOMPSON ... 100
  • Jean-Paul Satre Meets Enid Coleslaw: Existential Themes in Ghost World - LAURA CANIS and PAUL CANIS .... 130
  • Making the Abstreact Concrete: How a Comic Can Bring to Life the Central Problems of Environmental Philosophy - KEVIN de LAPLANTE ... 153
  • The Good Government According to Tintin: Long Live Old Europe? - PIERRE SKILLING ... 163
  • Drawn into 9/11, But Where Have All the Superheroes Gone? - TERRY KADING ... 207
  • Bibliography ... 228
  • Contributors .... 236
  • Index ... 239

Reviews
  • Matthew J. Smith. International Journal of Comic Art 9.2 (Fall 2007): 541-543.



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