X-men and philosophy
Subtitle: astonishing insight and uncanny argument in the mutant X-verse
By: edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
Contributors: Housel, Rebecca.; Wisnewski, Jeremy.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780470413401
Subjects: X-Men (Fictitious characters); Comic books, strips, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: You are about to embark on an X-perience with the strangest heroes of all?; title: X1-origins : the X-factor in the existential; title: The lure of the normal : who wouldn't want to be a mutant? / Patrick Hopkins; title: Amnesia, personal identity, and the many lives of wolverine / Jason Southworth; title: Is suicide always moral : Jean Grey, Kant, and the dark Phoenix saga / Mark D. White; title: X-istential x-men : Jews, supermen, and the literature of struggle / Jesse Kavaldo; title: X2-evolution : consciousness, conscience, and cure; title: Mad genetics : the sinister side of biological mastery / Andrew Burnett; title: Layla Miller knows stuff : how a butterfly can shoulder the world / George A. Dunn; title: X-women and X-istence / Rebecca Housel; title: Mutant rights, torture and X-perimentation / Cynthia McWilliams; title: When you know you're just a comic book character : deadpool / Joseph J. Darowski; title: X3-united : human ethics and mutant morality in the X-verse; title: Magneto, mutation, and morality / Richard Davis; title: Professor X wants you / Christopher Robichaud; title: Dirty hands and dirty minds : the ethics of mindreading and mindwriting / Andrew Terjesen; title: The mutant cure or social change : debating disability / Ramona Ilea; title: Mutants and the metaphysics of race / Jeremy Pierce; title: X4-the last stand : war, technology, death, and mutant-kind; title: Mutant phenomonology / J. Jeremy Wisnewski; title: War and peace, power and faith / Katherine E. Kirby; title: High-tech mythology in X-men / George Teschner.