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Introduction: Philosophy and the Western | p. 1 |
The Cowboy Way: The Essence of the Western Hero | |
"Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Darling": Loneliness and Solitude in Westerns | p. 13 |
Civilization and Its Discontents: The Self-Sufficient Western Hero | p. 31 |
Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pragmatists | p. 55 |
Two Ways to Yuma: Locke, Liberalism, and Western Masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma | p. 69 |
Landscapes of Gendered Violence: Male Love and Anxiety on the Railroad | p. 89 |
The Code of the West: The Cowboy and Society | |
"Order Out of the Mud": Deadwood and the State of Nature | p. 113 |
Order without Law: The Magnificent Seven, East and West | p. 139 |
From Dollars to Iron: The Currency of Clint Eastwood's Westerns | p. 149 |
The Duty of Reason: Kantian Ethics in High Noon | p. 171 |
Outlaws: Challenging Conventions of the Western | |
The Cost of the Code: Ethical Consequences in High Noon and The Ox-Bow Incident | p. 187 |
"Back Off to What?" The Search for Meaning in The Wild Bunch | p. 203 |
No Country for Old Men: The Decline of Ethics and the West(ern) | p. 221 |
The Northwestern: McCabe and Mrs. Miller | p. 241 |
On the Fringe: The Encounter with the Other | |
Savage Nations: Native Americans and the Western | p. 261 |
Regeneration through Stories and Song: The View from the Other Side of the West in Smoke Signals | p. 291 |
Go West, Young Woman! Hegel's Dialectic and Women's Identities in Western Films | p. 309 |
Beating a Live Horse: The Elevation and Degradation of Horses in Westerns | p. 329 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 351 |
List of Contributors | p. 355 |
Index | p. 359 |
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