Green Lantern and philosophy: no evil shall escape this book

The first look at the philosophy behind the Green Lantern comics—timed for the release of the Green Lantern movie in June 2011 The most recent Green Lantern series—the Blackest Night—propelled GL to be the top-selling comic series for more than a year, the latest twist in seven decades of Green Lantern adventures. This book sheds light on the deep philosophical issues that emerge from the Green Lantern Corp's stories and characters, from what Plato's tale of the Ring of Gyges tells us about the Green Lantern ring and the desire for power to whether willpower is the most important strength to who is the greatest Green Lantern of all time. Gives you a new perspective on Green Lantern characters, story lines, and themes Shows what philosophical heavy hitters such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant can teach us about members of the Green Lantern Corpand their world Answers your most pressing Green Lantern questions, including: What motivates Hal Jordan to be a Green Lantern? Does the Blackest Night force us to confront old male/female stereotypes? What is the basis for moral judgment in the Green Lantern Corp? Is Hal Jordan a murderer? Whether you're a new fan or an elder from Oa, Green Lantern and Philosophy is a must-have companion. INDICE: Part 1. Will and Emotion: The Philosophical Spectrum. 1.The Blackest Night for Aristotles Account of Emotions (Jason Southworth). 2. Flexing theMental Muscle: Green Lanterns and the Nature of Willpower (Mark D. White). 3.Women Are from Zamaron, Men Are from Oa (Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson). Part 2. Emerald Ethics: Its Not All Black and White. 4. Can Anybody Join? Testing for Moral Judgment (Andrew Terjesen). 5. The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the Praiseworthy Hero (Jane Dryden). 6. There Should Be No Forgiveness for Hal Jordan (Nicolas Michaud). 7. Morality, Atonement, and Guilt: Hal Jordans Shifting Motivations (Joseph J. Darowski). Part 3. Im with Green Lantern: Friends and Relationships. 8. Hard-Traveling Ethics: Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism (Andrew Terjesen). 9. I Despise Messiness: The Plato-Aristotle Debate in the Troubled Friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow (Brett Chandler Patterson). 10. Cant Live With Em, Cant Live Without Em: Green Lantern, Relationships, and Autonomy (Jane Dryden). Part 4. With This Ring, I Thee Swear: Power, Duty, and Law. 11. The Oaths of Soranik Natu: Can a Doctor Be a Green Lantern? (Tallman and Southworth). 12. Crying for Justice: Retributivism for Those Who Worship Evils Might (Mark D. White). 13. Hate Crimes as Terrorism in Brothers Keeper (Ron Novy). 14. Ring of Gyges, the Ring of the Green Lantern, and the Temptation of Power (Adam Barkman). Part 5. Dont Tell Krona: Metaphysics, Mind and Time. 15. All For One and One For All: Mogo, the Collective, and Biological Unity (Leonard Finkelman). 16. The Book of Oa, the Lantern Corps, and Peirces Theory of Communal Mind (Paul R. Jaissle). 17. Its Not Easy Being Green (Amy Kind). Part 6. Can Green Lantern Make a Boxing Glove He Cans Lift? Powers and Limitations. 18. Another Glove? Green Lantern and the Limits of Imagination (Daniel P. Malloy). 19. Beware my Power: Leibniz and Green Lantern on God, Omnipotence, and Evil (Carsten Fogh Nielsen). 20. Magic and Science in the Green Lantern Mythos: Clarkes Law, the Starheart, and Emotional Energy (Andrew Zimmerman Jones). Tales of the Philosophy Corps. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-57557-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 20/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés