Acknowledgments: They Left It Entirely in My Hands ix
Introduction: A Rorschach Test 1
Part One The Politics of Power: Who Watches The Watchmen?
1 The Superman Exists, and Hes American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power5
Christopher Robichaud
2 Can We Steer This Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor 19
Jacob M. Held
3 Super-Vigilantes and the Keene Act 33
Tony Spanakos
4 Superheroes and Supermen: Finding Nietzsches Übermensch in Watchmen 47
J. Keeping
Part Two The Veidt Plan: Watchmen and Ethics
5 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes 63
J. Robert Loftis
6 The Virtues of Nite Owls Potbelly 79
Mark D. White
7 Rorschach: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong 91
Alex Nuttall
Part Three The Metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan
8 Dr. Manhattan, I Presume? 103
James DiGiovanna
9 A Timely Encounter: Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson 115
Christopher M. Drohan
10 Free Will and Foreknowledge: Does Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She DoOtherwise? 125
Arthur Ward
11 Im Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage 137
Andrew Terjesen
Part Four This Is Not Your Fathers Comic Book
12 Why Dont You Go Read a Book or Something?
Watchmen as Literature 157
Aaron Meskin
13 Watchwomen 173
Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson
14 Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo 185
Robert Arp
15 Whats So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Lifes Way 197
Taneli Kukkonen
Contributors: Who Writes about the Watchmen? 215
Index: After the Masquerade 221
MARK D. WHITE is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and coeditor ofBatman and Philosophy.
WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at Kings College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestsellingThe Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, includingBatman and Philosophy,House and Philosophy, andAlice in Wonderland and Philosophy.
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