The Wizard of Oz and philosophy : wicked wisdom of the West / edited by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auxier, Randall E., 1961-

Seng, Phillip S., 1970-

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 37.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy in literature.

Children's stories, American--History and criticism.

Children's stories, American.

Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Oz (Imaginary place).

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. Wizard of Oz.

Baum, L. Frank.

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919--Adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children ? and adults ? like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy's journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs, and dialogue have permeated popular culture around the world. The contributors to this volume take a very close look at The Wizard of Oz and ask the tough questions about this wonderful tale. They wonder if someone can possess a virtue without knowing it, and if the realm of Oz was really the dream or if Kansas was the dream.

Contents:

Title Page; Popular Culture and Philosophy; Ideas and Images of Oz; I - Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?; 1 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Moral Odyssey; Ding Dong, She's Dead; If I Only Had a Brain; Follow the Yellow Brick Road; Because, Because, Because, Because, Becaaaause . . .; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; If I Only Had a Heart; There's No Place Like Home; 2 - The Virtues of The Wizard of Oz; What Is Virtue?; The Scarecrow: Friendship and the Intellect; The Tin Man: The Heart of a Man; Courage: Hearts and Minds; Dorothy: Growing Up in the Land of Oz

3 - Very Good, but Not So Mysterious: Hegel, Rushdie, and the Dialectics of OzHome Is Where the Heart Will Be: The Material and Spiritual Senses of Home; Synthesizing Oz: The Tripartite Structure of Dorothy's Journey; Creating Oneself and Others Too: How Dorothy Is a World-Historical Individual; And Your Little Dog Too!; 4 - Freeing the Slaves in Oz; Dead Man's Hand; Sic Semper Tyrannis; John Brown, The Great Emancipator; Socrates, the Great Emancipator; Socrates's Coming Out Ball; Dorothy and the Art of War; 5 - When the Wiz Goes Black, Does It Ever Go Back?; [The Break-Down]

[And Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program]Cook Me Up Some Legacy-Feeling that Old Tyme Racial Virtue; The Crisis of Dorothy and the Problem of One [POWERLESSNESS]; Damn, that Boy Can Blow-Dropping Knowledge and Elevating a People Away from ...; Even Players Can Cry! [FEELING]; The Racial Idealism of Fleetwood Coupe De Ville [COURAGE]; What Virtues Must Overcome: The Truth about Black Suffering and the Plague of ...; Lessons Learned; II - If I Only Had a Mind; 6 - Oz Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man; Pieces of Me; All of Me, Why Not Take All of Me?; Stop! In the Name of Love

The Oz Axe Massacre (with apologies to Texas)We'll Meet Again; Splitting Some Hairs; I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay; Meet Me in Oz, Ozzie; There's Gonna Be a Heartache Tonight; Epilog-Rolling; 7 - Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain!; "Who's Them? Who's Them?"; "If the Wizard Is a Wizard Who Will Serve, then I'm Sure to Get a Brain, a ...; "Because, Because, Because, Because, Because-Because of the Wonderful Things He Does"; A Dualist?; A Stoic?; Courage Is Really Just Wisdom; Successful Inquiry Means Solving the Problem at Hand; "There's No Place Like Home"

"Here, Here, What's All This Jabber-wapping When There's Work to Be Done?"III - I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore; 8 - "I'm Melting! Melting!"; Growing a Character (Just Don't Add Water); Fairytales, Dreams, and Other Worlds; It's Just Your Imagination; The Dream Scheme; Once upon a Time; Possible Ozzes; In Munchkinland; Where Is Oz?; A Good Place to Visit, but Don't Drink the Water; Dissent in the Lollipop Guild; The Loneliest Witch; 9 - Off to See the Wizard: The Romantic Eschatology of The Wizard of Oz; All's Well that Ends Well; Romantic Eschatology; It Doesn't Take a Hero

Unconscious Unity: Kansas and the "Ungrund"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-30099-0

9786613300997

0-8126-9782-0

OCLC:

756484311