Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
MARK D. WHITE is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and coeditor of Batman and Philosophy. WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy.
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Acknowledgments: They Left It Entirely in My Hands ix Introduction: A Rorschach Test 1 Part One The Politics of Power: Who Watches The Watchmen? 1 The Superman Exists, and He's American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power5 Christopher Robichaud 2 Can We Steer This Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor 19 Jacob M. Held 3 Super-Vigilantes and the Keene Act 33 Tony Spanakos 4 Superheroes and Supermen: Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Watchmen 47 J. Keeping Part Two The Veidt Plan: Watchmen and Ethics 5 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes 63 J. Robert Loftis 6 The Virtues of Nite Owl's Potbelly 79 Mark D. White 7 Rorschach: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong 91 Alex Nuttall Part Three The Metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan 8 Dr. Manhattan, I Presume? 103 James DiGiovanna 9 A Timely Encounter: Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson 115 Christopher M. Drohan 10 Free Will and Foreknowledge: Does Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She DoOtherwise? 125 Arthur Ward 11 I'm Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage 137 Andrew Terjesen Part Four This Is Not Your Father's Comic Book 12 "Why Don't You Go Read a Book or Something?" Watchmen as Literature 157 Aaron Meskin 13 Watchwomen 173 Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson 14 Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo 185 Robert Arp 15 What's So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life's Way 197 Taneli Kukkonen Contributors: Who Writes about the Watchmen? 215 Index: After the Masquerade 221
Acknowledgments: They Left It Entirely in My Hands ix Introduction: A Rorschach Test 1 Part One The Politics of Power: Who Watches The Watchmen? 1 The Superman Exists, and He's American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power5 Christopher Robichaud 2 Can We Steer This Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor 19 Jacob M. Held 3 Super-Vigilantes and the Keene Act 33 Tony Spanakos 4 Superheroes and Supermen: Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Watchmen 47 J. Keeping Part Two The Veidt Plan: Watchmen and Ethics 5 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes 63 J. Robert Loftis 6 The Virtues of Nite Owl's Potbelly 79 Mark D. White 7 Rorschach: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong 91 Alex Nuttall Part Three The Metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan 8 Dr. Manhattan, I Presume? 103 James DiGiovanna 9 A Timely Encounter: Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson 115 Christopher M. Drohan 10 Free Will and Foreknowledge: Does Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She DoOtherwise? 125 Arthur Ward 11 I'm Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage 137 Andrew Terjesen Part Four This Is Not Your Father's Comic Book 12 "Why Don't You Go Read a Book or Something?" Watchmen as Literature 157 Aaron Meskin 13 Watchwomen 173 Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson 14 Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo 185 Robert Arp 15 What's So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life's Way 197 Taneli Kukkonen Contributors: Who Writes about the Watchmen? 215 Index: After the Masquerade 221
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