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Comics
as Philosophy. Edited by Jeff McLaughlin. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 256pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 1578067944
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- Acknowledgments ... 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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