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Rebecca Housel is a professor of pop culture, creative writing, and medical humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology and contributed to Monty Python and Philosophy.
J. JEREMY WISNEWSKI is an assistant professor of philosophy at Hartwick College and the editor of Family Guy and Philosophy and The Office and Philosophy.
William Irwin is a professor of philosophy at King's College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy.
Acknowledgments: Superheroic Thanks to X-tra Special Humans and Mutants Alike! | p. xi |
Introduction: You Are About to Embark on an X-perience with "the Strangest Heroes of All" | p. 1 |
Origins: The X-Factor in the Existential | |
The Lure of the Normal: Who Wouldn't Want to Be a Mutant? | p. 5 |
Amnesia, Personal Identity, and the Many Lives of Wolverine | p. 17 |
Is Suicide Always Immoral? Jean Grey, Immanuel Kant, and The Dark Phoenix Saga | p. 27 |
X-istential X-Men: Jews, Supermen, and the Literature of Struggle | p. 38 |
Evolution: Consciousness, Conscience, and Cure | |
Mad Genetics: The Sinister Side of Biological Mastery | p. 53 |
Layla Miller Knows Stuff: How a Butterfly Can Shoulder the World | p. 66 |
X-Women and X-istence | p. 85 |
Mutant Rights, Torture, and X-perimentation | p. 99 |
When You Know You're just a Comic Book Character: Deadpool | p. 107 |
United: Human Ethics and Mutant Morality in the X-Verse | |
Magneto, Mutation, and Morality | p. 125 |
Professor X Wants You | p. 140 |
Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mind Reading and Mindwriting | p. 153 |
The Mutant Cure or Social Change: Debating Disability | p. 170 |
Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race | p. 183 |
The Last Stand: War, Technology, Death, and Mutantkind | |
Mutant Phenomenology | p. 197 |
War and Peace, Power and Faith | p. 209 |
High-Tech Mythology in X-Men | p. 223 |
Contributors: And Now, We'd Like to Introduce the X-Perts: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Amazing, Astonishing, Uncanny, Ultimate Authors from Xavier's School for Gifted Philosophers! | p. 236 |
Index | p. 241 |
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