James Bond and Philosophy Questions Are Forever

by South, James B.; Held, Jacob M.

• ISBN13: 9780812696073
• ISBN10: 0812696077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-10
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

James Bond came into the world in the novel Casino Royale in 1953, and hit the movie screens with Dr. No in 1962. Bond has become one of the best-known personalities, real or imagined, in human history: one out of every four people in the entire world has now seen a Bond movie. With the firing of Pierce Brosnan and the hiring of Daniel Craig as the new screen Bond, fascination with the Bond phenomenon is at an all-time high. 2006 is scheduled to see the twenty-first Bond film, Casino Royale, as well as the "authorized biography" of James Bond.

Table of Contents

Oh, Spare Me This Sentimental Rubbish	xi
Tell Me, Commander, How Far Does Your Expertise Extend into the Field of Philosophy?	xiii
SECTION I No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die
Bond, Existentialism, and Death
1. Being-Towards-Death and Taking Pleasure in Beauty: James Bond And Existentialism
BETH BUTTERFIELD	3	(14)
2. How to Live (and How to Die)
MAHLETE-TSIGÉ GETACHEW	17	(18)
3. Six to Four Against: James Bond and the Hope for a Meaningful Life
JAMES B. SOUTH	35	(12)
SECTION II Mr. Bond Is Indeed a Very Rare Breed
The Man Behind the Number	47	(62)
4. Bond and Phenomenology: Shaken, Not Stirred.
SUZIE GIBSON	49	(14)
5. He Who Eats Meat Wins: Appetite, Power, and Nietzsche in the Novels of Ian Fleming
SUE MATHESON	63	(16)
6. James Bond: A Nietzschean for the Cold War
ISHAY LANDA	79	(16)
7. Bond as Chivalric, Comic Hero
CHARLES TALIAFERRO and MICHEL Le GALL	95	(14)
SECTION III For England, James?
Bond, Politics, and Law	109	(46)
8. The Moral Status of the Double-0 Agent: Thinking about the License to Kill
MATTHEW TEDESCO	111	(10)
9. "Just a Stupid Policeman": Bond and the Rule of Law
GREG FORSTER	121	(18)
10. "Don't You Men Know Any Other Way?" Punishment Beyond Retributivism and Deterrence
JACOB M. HELD	139	(16)
SECTION IV Oh, Don't Be an Idiot, 007
Knowledge and Technology	155	(44)
11. The Epistemology of James Bond: The Logic of Abduction
JEROLD J. ABRAMS	157	(16)
12. James Bond and Q: Heidegger's Technology, or "You're Not a Sportsman, Mr. Bond"
STEVEN ZANI	173	(14)
13. James Bond and the Philosophy of Technology: It's More than Just the Gadgets of Q Branch
WILLIAM J. McKINNEY	187	(12)
SECTION V Why Do Chinese Girls Taste Different from All Other Girls?
Multiculturalism, Women, and a More Sensitive Bond	199	(30)
14. "That Fatal Kiss": Bond, Ethics, and the Objectification of Women
ROBERT ARP and KEVIN S. DECKER	201	(14)
15. The New Millennium Bond and Yin-Yang Chinese Cosmology
DEAN A. KOWALSKI	215	(14)
James Bond Will Return	229	(4)
For Your Eyes Only: Authors' Dossiers	233	(4)
Index Provided Courtesy of Universal Exports	237