Doctor Strange and philosophy : the other book of forbidden knowledge / edited by Mark D. White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

White, Mark D., 1971- editor.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doctor Strange (Motion picture : 2016).

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiv, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2018.

Contents:

Part I "You're Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe" 3

1 Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One's Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange 5 / George A. Dunn

2 Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange 17 / Sander H. Lee

3 "Time Will Tell How Much I Love You": A Nietzschean Übermensch's Issues with Love and Friendship 25 / Skye C. Cleary

4 Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange 35 / Paul DiGeorgio

Part II "Forget Everything That You Think You Know" 47

5 "Through an Orb Darkly": Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge 49 / Armond Boudreaux

6 Forbidden Knowledge and Strange Virtues: It's Not What You Know, It's How You Know It 60 / Tuomas W. Manninen

7 Doctor Strange, Socratic Hero? 68 / Chad William Timm

8 Are We All "Looking at the World Through a Keyhole"? Knowledge, Ignorance, and Bias 78 / Carina Pape

9 Stephen Strange vs. Ayn Rand: A Doesn't Always Equal A 88 / Edwardo Pérez

Part III "Reality is One of Many" 99

10 Astral Bodies and Cartesian Souls: Mind-Body Dualism in Doctor Strange 101 / Dean A. Kowalski

11 Scientists, Metaphysicians, and Sorcerers Supreme 111 / Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas Richardson

12 "This is Time": Setting Time in Doctor Strange by Henri Bergson's Clock 125 / Corey Latta

Part IV "A Man Looking at the World Through a Keyhole" 137

13 A Strange Case of a Paradigm Shift 139 / Brendan Shea

14 Doctor Strange, the Multiverse, and the Measurement Problem 151 / PhiliBerghofer

15 The Strange World of Paradox: Science and Belief in Kamar-Taj 164 / Matthew William Brake

Part V "It's Not About You" 175

16 The Otherworldly Burden of Being the Sorcerer Supreme 177 / Mark D. White

17 The Ancient One and the Problem of Dirty Hands / Michael Lyons and 191

18 They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wong 197 / Daniel P. Malloy

19 Doctor Strange, Master of the Medical and Martial Arts 207 / Bruce Wright and E. Paul Zehr

Part VI "I've Come to Bargain" 217

20 Is Dormammu Evil? St. Augustine and the Dark Dimension / Andrew T. Vink and 219

21 Doctor Strange and Leo Tolstoy: Brothers in Nonviolence? 228 / Konstantin Pavliouts

22 Doctor Strange, Moral Responsibility, and the God Question 238 / Christopher P. Kloffe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Doctor Strange and philosophy.

ISBN:

9781119437949

1119437946

OCLC:

1027769385