| Description |
xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series |
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Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: You are about to embark on an X-perience with the strangest heroes of all? -- X1-origins : the X-factor in the existential -- The lure of the normal : who wouldn't want to be a mutant? / Patrick Hopkins -- Amnesia, personal identity, and the many lives of wolverine / Jason Southworth -- Is suicide always moral : Jean Grey, Kant, and the dark Phoenix saga / Mark D. White -- X-istential x-men : Jews, supermen, and the literature of struggle / Jesse Kavaldo -- X2-evolution : consciousness, conscience, and cure -- Mad genetics : the sinister side of biological mastery / Andrew Burnett -- Layla Miller knows stuff : how a butterfly can shoulder the world / George A. Dunn -- X-women and X-istence / Rebecca Housel -- Mutant rights, torture and X-perimentation / Cynthia McWilliams -- When you know you're just a comic book character : deadpool / Joseph J. Darowski -- X3-united : human ethics and mutant morality in the X-verse -- Magneto, mutation, and morality / Richard Davis -- Professor X wants you / Christopher Robichaud -- Dirty hands and dirty minds : the ethics of mindreading and mindwriting / Andrew Terjesen -- The mutant cure or social change : debating disability / Ramona Ilea -- Mutants and the metaphysics of race / Jeremy Pierce -- X4-the last stand : war, technology, death, and mutant-kind -- Mutant phenomonology / J. Jeremy Wisnewski -- War and peace, power and faith / Katherine E. Kirby -- High-tech mythology in X-men / George Teschner. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The X-Men are labelled 'mutants' for their powerful and special abilities. These abilities make them more powerful than all other humans, but the measure of a mutant lies in how he or she chooses to use their ability. |
| Subject |
X-Men (Fictitious characters)
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Added Author |
Housel, Rebecca.
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Wisnewski, Jeremy.
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| ISBN |
9780470413401 (pbk.) |
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0470413409 (pbk.) |
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