Mark D. White

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test

Watchmen and philo 1Watchmen and philo 2John Wiley & Sons, 2008

PART ONE  THE POLITICS OF POWER: WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?

1 The Superman Exists, and He’s American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power (Christopher Robichaud)

2 Can We Steer This Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor (Jacob M. Held)

3 Super-Vigilantes and the Keene Act (Tony Spanakos)

4 Superheroes and Supermen: Finding Nietzsche’s Übermensch in Watchmen (J. Keeping)

PART TWO  THE VEIDT PLAN: WATCHMEN AND ETHICS

5 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes (J. Robert Loftis)

6 The Virtues of Nite Owl’s Potbelly (Mark D. White)

7 Rorschach: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong (Alex Nuttall)

PART THREE  THE METAPHYSICS OF DR. MANHATTAN

8 Dr. Manhattan, I Presume? (James DiGiovanna)

9 A Timely Encounter: Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson (Christopher M. Drohan)

10 Free Will and Foreknowledge: Does Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She Do Otherwise? (Arthur Ward)

11 I’m Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage (Andrew Terjesen)

PART FOUR  THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S COMIC BOOK

12 “Why Don’t You Go Read a Book or Something?” Watchmen as Literature (Aaron Meskin)

13 Watchwomen (Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson)

14 Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo (Robert Arp)

15 What’s So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life’s Way (Taneli Kukkonen)

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