The Legend of Zelda and philosophy
Subtitle: I link thereforeI am
By: edited by Luke Cuddy.
Contributors: Cuddy, Luke, 1980-
Series: Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 36
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780812696547
Subjects: Legend of Zelda (Game); Video games -- Philosophy
Description: "Chapters address philosophical aspects of the video game The Legend of Zelda and video game culture in general"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting up the game / Luke Cuddy; title: Level 1: Emotion, experience, and thought; title: Why do we care whether link saves the princess? / Jonathan Frome; title: Look before you warp / Doug Wilson; title: Critical thinking in the gaming and real worlds / Robert Arp and Dennis Milarker; title: Level 2: Dodongo and death; title: Link's search for meaning / Toni Fellela; title: The hero with a thousand hearts / Anna B. Janssen; title: Level 3: Don't get man-handled by manhandla-or ... mind-handled?; title: Slave morality and master swords : Ludus and Paidia in Zelda / Kristina Drzaic and Peter Rauch; title: Shape shifting and time traveling : link's identity issues / Rachel Robison; title: Level 4: The CDI games don't count! : timelines and Miyamoto; title: The hero of timelines / Sean C. Duncan and James Paul Gee; title: Linking to the past : Zelda is a communication game / Carl Matthew Johnson; title: Level 5: Time and space in hyrule; title: Three days in termina : Zelda and temporality / Lee Sherlock; title: Constructing nespace in Zelda / Joaquin Siabra-Fraile; title: Level 6: Treasures of the hyrulopolis; title: Zelda as art / Luke Cuddy; title: Hyrule's green and pleasant land : the minish cap as utopian ideal / Paul Brown; title: Level 7: You are nearing the end of your quest ... grumble, grumble; title: I am link's transcendental will : freedom from hyrule to earth / Dario S. Compagno; title: Zeldathustra / Michael Bruce; title: Level 8: The triforce-need I say more?; title: A link to the triforce : Miyamoto, Lacan, and you / Patrick Dugan; title: The triforce and the doctrine of the mean / Charles Joshua Horn; title: Level 9: Don't patra-nize me!; title: How can there be evil in hyrule? / Dwayne Collins; title: The legend of feminism / Joyce C. Havstad and Iris M. Jahng; title: It's a secret to everybody; title: Getting to know the world next door / Roger Ngim.