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Star Wars films -- History and criticism.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Philosophy in motion pictures.
Philosophy in literature.
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Star Wars films -- History and criticism.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Philosophy in motion pictures.
Philosophy in literature.
MARC Display
The
ultimate
Star
Wars
and
philosophy
: you
must
unlearn
what
you have
learned
/ Edited by Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker.
John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Call #:
791.4375 S795ed
Subjects
Star
Wars
films -- History and criticism.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Philosophy
in motion pictures.
Philosophy
in literature.
Series
Blackwell
philosophy
and popculture series.
ISBN:
9781119038061 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Star
Wars
and
philosophy
: you
must
unlearn
what
you have
learned
Description:
x, 324 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Episode I : the philosophical menace. The platonic paradox of Darth Plagueis : how could a sith lord be wise? / Terrance MacMullan -- You are asking me to be rational : stoic
philosophy
and the Jedi order / Matt Hummel -- The Jedi knights of faith : Anakin, Luke, and Soren (Kierkegaard) / William A. Lindenmuth -- Anakin and Achilles : scars of nihilism / Don Adams -- Dark times : the end of the republic and the beginning of Chinese
philosophy
/ Kevin S. Decker -- Episode II : attack of the morals. Chasing Kevin Smith: was it immoral for the rebel alliance to destroy Death
Star
II? / Charles C. Camosy -- The ballad of Boba Fett : mercenary agency and amoralism in war / David LaRocca -- How guilty is Jar Jar Binks? / Nicolas Michaud -- Know the dark side : a theodicy of the force / Jason T. Eberl -- Episode III: revenge of the alliance -- Like my father before me : loss and redemption of fatherhood in
Star
Wars
/ Charles Taliaferro and Annika Taylor Beck -- The friends of a Jedi : friendship, family, and civic duty in a galaxy at war / Greg Littmann -- Light side, dark side, and switching sides : loyalty and betrayal in
Star
Wars
/ Daniel Malloy -- Guardians and tyrants in the republics of
Star
Wars
and Plato / Adam Barkman and Kyle Alkema -- Episode IV : a new hermeneutic -- Pregnant Padme and slave Leia :
Star
Wars
female role models / Cole Bowman -- Docile bodies and a viscous force : fear of the flesh in return of the Jedi / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Of battle droids and zillo beasts : moral status in the
Star
Wars
galaxy / James M. Okapal -- Episode V : metaphysics strikes back -- Why the force
must
have a dark side / George A. Dunn --
What
is it like to be a Jedi? : a life in the force / Marek McGann -- Never tell me the odds : an inquiry concerning Jedi understanding / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- Episode VI : return of the non-human -- Mindless philosophers and overweight globs of grease : are droids capable of thought? / Dan Burkett -- Can Chewie speak? : Wittgenstein and the
philosophy
of language / Rhiannon Grant and Myfanwy Reynolds -- Can the zillo beast strike back? : cloning, de-extinction, and the species problem / Leonard Finkelman -- Episode VII : the fandom awakens -- In that time in a galaxy far, far away : epic myth-understandings and myth-appropriation in
Star
Wars
/ John Thompson --
Star
Wars
, emotions, and the paradox of fiction / Lance Belluomini -- The mind of blue snaggletooth : the intentional stance, vintage
Star
Wars
action figures, and the origins of religion / Dennis Knepp -- Gospel, gossip, and Ghent : how should we understand the new
Star
Wars
? / Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen.
Summary:
Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? No aspect of the myth and magic of George Lucas's creation is left philosophically unexamined. The most far-reaching examination of the
philosophy
behind
Star
Wars
. Includes coverage of the entire film catalogue to date as well as the Expanded Universe of novels, comics, television series, games and toys. Provides serious explorations into the deeper meaning of George Lucas's philosophically rich creation. Topics include the moral code of bounty-hunter favourite Boba Fett, Stoicism and the Jedi Order, the nature of the Dark Side, Anakin and Achilles in a nihilism face-off, feminism and being chained to a giant slug, cloning, de-extinction, fatherhood, Wookiees, loyalty, betrayal, guardians, republics, tyrants, terrorism, civic duty, friendship, family, and more.
Other authors:
Eberl, Jason T.
Decker, Kevin S.
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