Category: Books
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Like a butterfly from its cocoon? No… Like a phoenix from the ashes? No… Like a tired old man rising from his dining room table? Nailed it. At 2:32 PM yesterday (four days after my April 30 deadline), I emailed the manuscript for my latest book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community,…
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It's been an exciting couple of weeks around the release of Captain America: Civil War, with several articles, interviews, and a review of my book A Philosopher Reads… Marvel Comics' Civil War appearing online. I collect them all on the dedicated page for the book at profmdwhite.com, but I thought a Comics Professor blog update…
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At long last, today is the release day for A Philosopher Reads… Marvel Comics' Civil War: Exploring the Moral Judgment of Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man, published by Ockham Publishing in both paperback and ebook. Comic book readers and moviegoers love to see superheroes fight, whether to protect innocent people from supervillains or to…
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Wow, this has been a wild month (not even a month, actually), both Invigorating and exhausting, leaving me feeling in a very different place than I was when it began. Most important, A Philosopher Reads… Marvel Comics' Civil War comes out today, and I've been very lucky to have gotten some exposure for it online…
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Today doesn't seem to be a very productive one, so I'll take a moment to let you in a few big things happening around here. First… you may have noticed that my book A Philosopher Reads Marvel Comics' Civil War was taken down from Amazon Kindle Direct. There is a reason, and it's a good…
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Well that was a month, wasn't it? David Bowie's passing hit me much harder than I would have imagined, and it hasn't totally subsided. I wrote a bit about how I felt about him here. Words cannot explain, but they're all I've got. (Of course, in January we also lost Alan Rickman, Paul Kantner, Glenn…
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I just realized I never posted this call for abstracts for what is a long-overdue and much-needed book. My abstract is in, and if you're a philosopher who's also a Wonder Woman fan, you should submit one too. (The deadline is February 1!) Call for Abstracts Wonder Woman and Philosophy Edited by…
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UPDATE: See new publication and ordering details—new post coming soon with new cover! It's finally here, my long-promised book on Marvel Comics' Civil War storyline and my initial foray into self-publishing with Amazon's Kindle Direct, publishing on February 3 and available now for pre-order: is now being published by Ockham Publishing in print and ebook formats…
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It's been a bit of an uneasy several months since my last update at the end of July. In the grand scheme of things, everything's fine—no one who I know died, lost their job, or decided to run for president—but for someone like me who tries to maintain a calm and smooth existence, it's been…
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It's two thirds of the way through summer 2015—so far, it's been an intense but good summer, with significant work done almost every day (except Saturdays, which are for the kids, and two short trips that nicely broke up the work). Most of the work was on the book manuscript that I submitted to my…
Mark D. White 