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050 00 $aPN6728.W386$bW38 2009
082 00 $a741.5/942$222
245 00 $aWatchmen and philosophy :$ba Rorschach test /$cedited by Mark D. White.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,$c2009.
263 $a0902
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aThe Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: A Rorschach test -- The politics of power : who watches the watchmen? -- The superman exists, and he's American : morality in the face of absolute power / Christopher Obichaud -- Can we steer this rudderless world? : Kant, Rorschach, retributivism, and honor / Jacob M. Held -- Super vigilantes and the Keene Act / Tony Spanakos -- Superheroes and supermen : finding Nietzsche's Bermensch in Watchmen / Joseph Keeping -- The Veidt plan : Watchmen and ethics -- Means, ends, and the critique of pure superheroes / J. Robert Loftis -- The virtues of nite owl's potbelly / Mark D. White -- Rorschach : when telling the truth is wrong / Alex Nuttall -- The metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan -- Dr. Manhattan, I presume? / James DiGiovanna -- Dr. Manhattan and Bergson's theory of simultaneous time / Chris Drohan -- Free will and foreknowledge : does Jon really know what Laurie will do next and can she do otherwise? / Arthur Ward -- I'm just a puppet who can see the strings : Dr. Manhattan as a stoic sage / Andrew Terjesen -- This is not your father's comic book -- Why don't you go read a book or something? : watchmen as literature / Aaron Meskin -- Watchwomen / Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson -- Hooded justice and Captain Metropolis : the ambiguously gay duo / Robert Arp -- What's so goddamned funny? : the comedian and Rorschach on life's way / Taneli Kukkonen.
600 10 $aMoore, Alan,$d1953-$tWatchmen.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.$xMoral and ethical aspects.
700 1 $aWhite, Mark D.,$d1971-