Batman and philosophy
Subtitle: the dark knight of the soul
By: edited by Mark D. White and Robert Arp.
Contributors: White, Mark D.; Arp, Robert.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780470270301
Subjects: Batman (Fictitious character)
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Riddle me this?; title: Does the Dark Knight always do right?; title: Why doesn't Batman kill the joker? / Mark D. White; title: Is it right to make a Robin? / James DiGiovanna; title: Batman' virtuous hatred / Stephen Kershnar; title: Law, justice, and the social order : where does Batman fit in?; title: No man land : social order in Gotham City and New Orleans / Brett Chandler Patterson; title: Governing Gotham / Tony Spanakos; title: The Jokers' wild : can we hold the Clown Prince morally responsible? / Christopher Robichaud; title: Origins and ethics : becoming the Caped Crusader; title: Batman's promise / Randall M. Jensen; title: Should Bruce Wayne have become Batman? / Mahesh Ananth and Ben Dixon; title: What would Batman do? : Bruce Wayne as moral exemplar / Ryan Indy Rhodes and David Kyle Johnson; title: Who is the Batman? (Is that a trick question?); title: Under the mask : how any person can become Batman / Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson; title: Could Batman have been the Joker? / Sam Cowling and Chris Ragg; title: Batman's identity crisis and Wittgenstein's family resemblance / Jason Southworth; title: What is it like to be a Batman? / Ron Novy; title: Being the Bat : insights from existentialism and taoism; title: Alfred, the Dark Knight of faith : Batman and Kierkegaard / Christopher M. Drohan; title: Dark nights and the call of conscience / Jason J. Howard; title: Batman's confrontation with death, angst, and freedom / David M. Hart; title: Friend, father, rival : the many roles of the Bat; title: Why Batman is better than Superman / Galen Foresman; title: World's finest; title: friends : Batman, Superman, and the nature of friendship / Daniel P. Malloy; title: Leaving the shadow of the Bat : Aristotle, Kant, and Dick Grayson on moral education / Carsten Fogh Nielsen; title: The tao of the Bat / Bat-Tzu.