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Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry

Jonathan J. Sanford

First published 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages xi+276
Price $17.95
ISBN 9780470575604

1st printing per number line. No printing date, using (c) date. Price on back cover, includes $21.95 for Canada. Cover design: Wendy Mount. Cover images: Spider (c) Georgios Kollidas/Alamy; Spiderweb (c) Volodymyr Kaznovskyi/Alamy. William Irwin is the series editor. The essays are divided into different sections: - The Spectacular Life of Spider-Man? - Responsibility-Man - Spider-Sense and the Self - Arachnids "R" Us: Technology and the Human, All Too Human - Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - The Amazing Speaking Spider: Jokes, Stories, And the Choices We Make There is introductory material - 'Acknowledgments' on p. xi and an index on pp. 261-276 which are left out of the Contents. The essay on the contributing authors may contain fictitious material. The following title contain italics: 'Maximum Clonage: What the Clone Saga Can Teach Us About Human Cloning'

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry) Jonathan J. Sanford Essay
7 Does Peter Parker Have a Good Life? Neil Mussett Essay
22 What Price Atonement? Peter Parker and the Infinite Debt Taneli Kukkonen Essay
37 "My Name is Peter Parker": Unmasking the Right and the Good Mark D. White Essay
55 "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility": Spider-Man, Christian Ethics, and the Problem of Evil Adam Barkman Essay
70 Does Great Power Bring Great Responsibility? Spider-Man and the Good Samaritan J. Keeping Essay
86 With Great Power Comes Great Culpability: How Blameworthy is Spider-Man for Uncle Ben's Death? Philip Tallon Essay
103 Why Is My Spider-Sense Tingling? Andrew Terjesen Essay
119 Red or Black: Perception, Identity, and Self Meaghan P. Godwin Essay
131 With Great Power: Heroism, Villainy, and Bodily Transformation Mark K. Spencer Essay
145 Transhumanism: Or, Is It Right to Make a Spider-Man? Ron Novy Essay
159 Maximum Clonage: What the Clone Saga Can Teach Us About Human Cloning Jason Southworth & John Timm Essay
177 Justice versus Romantic Love: Can Spider-Man Champion Justice and Be with Mary Jane at the Same Time? Charles Taliaferro & Tricia Little Essay
188 Love, Friendship, and Being Spider-Man Tony Spanakos Essay
200 Spidey's Tangled Web of Obligations: Fighting Friends and Dependents Gone Bad Christopher Robichaud Essay
217 The Quipslinger: The Morality of Spider-Man's Jokes Daniel P. Malloy Essay
231 The Sound and the Fury behind "One More Day" Mark D. White Essay
243 Spider-Man and the importance of Getting Your Story Straight Jonathan J. Sanford Essay
257 Contributors (Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry) uncredited Essay