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Описание:
The first book in the new Great Authors and Philosophy series, Stephen King and Philosophy reveals some of the deeper issues raised by King's work. A collection of essays focusing on philosophical readings of many of King's works. While this is somewhat academic in style the essays are accessible and concepts, as used by the writers, are explained adequately.
Cover art by David Smith.
Содержание:
- Jacob M. Held. Introduction: On Writing Popular Philosophy (статья), с. 1-11
- C. Taylor Sutton, Jacob M. Held. There Is No God in Desperation: Tak and the Problem of Evil (статья), с. 13-34
- Kellye Byal. Female Subjectivity in Carrie (статья), с. 35-45
- Katherine Allen. “Sometimes Dead Is Better”: King, Daedalus, Dragon-Tyrants, and Deathism (статья), с. 47-70
- Garret Merriam. “Gan Is Dead”: Nietzsche and Roland’s Eternal Recurrence (статья), с. 71-81
- Matthew A. Butkus. Rāma of Gilead: Hindu Philosophy in The Dark Tower (статья), с. 83-96
- Greg Littmann. What’s Wrong with Roland?: Utilitarianism and the Dark Tower (статья), с. 97-112
- Bertha Alvarez Manninen. Stephen King and Aristotelian Friendship: An Analysis of The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (статья), с. 113-130
- Michael K. Potter, Cam Cobb. Propaganda and Pedagogy for Apt Pupils (статья), с. 131-146
- Elizabeth Hornbeck. The Shining’s Overlook Hotel as Heterotopia (статья), с. 147-160
- Joseph J. Foy, Timothy M. Dale. Broadcast Dystopia: Power and Violence in The Running Man and The Long Walk (статья), с. 161-171
- Greg Littmann. Stephen King and the Art of Horror (статья), с. 173-193
- Charles Bane. “You Weren’t Hired to Philosophize, Torrance”: The Death of the Author in The Shining (статья), с. 195-206
- Paul R. Daniels. What Happens to the Present When It Becomes the Past: Time Travel and the Nature of Time in The Langoliers (статья), с. 207-217
- Tuomas W. Manninen. Notes on Foreknowledge, Truthmaking, and Counterfactuals from The Dead Zone (статья), с. 219-229
- Randall Auxier. Time Belongs to the Tower (статья), с. 231-252
- Randall Auxier. Ur 88,416 (статья), с. 253-275
- Jacob M. Held. From Desperation to Haven: Horror, Compassion, and Arthur Schopenhauer (статья), с. 277-297
- Index, с. 299-307
- Ka-tet: Author Biographies, с. 309-314
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Размер книги: 15,2х22,8 см.
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