Star wars and philosophy : more powerful than you can possibly imagine /
A collection of essays that address the philosophical questions associated with the "Star Wars" films.
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Open Court,
©2005.
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| Series: | Popular culture and philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- "You cannot escape your destiny" (or can you?) : freedom and predestination in the Skywalker family / Jason T. Eberl
- Stoicism in the stars : Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force / William O. Stephens
- The Far East of Star wars / Walter [Ritoku] Robinson
- Moral ambiguity in a black-and-white universe / Richard H. Dees
- "Try not-do or do not" : ethics in a galaxy far, far away
- The aspiring Jedi's handbook of virtue / Judith Barad
- "A wretched hive of scum and villainy" : Star wars and the problem of evil / Christopher M. Brown
- "Be mindful of the living Force" : environmental ethics in Star wars / Elizabeth F. Cooke
- Send in the clones : the ethics of future wars / Richard Hanley
- "Don't call me a mindless philosopher!" : alien technologies and the metaphysics of The Force
- A technological galaxy : Heidegger and the philosophy of technology in Star wars / Jerold J. Abrams
- "If droids could think . . ." : droids as slaves and persons / Robert Arp
- "Size matters not" : the Force as the causal power of the Jedi / Jan-Erik Jones
- The Force is with us : Hegel's philosophy of spirit strikes back at the empire / James Lawler
- "There's always a bigger fish" : truth, faith and a galactic society
- "What is thy bidding, my master?" : Star wars and the Hegelian struggle for recognition / Brian Cameron
- By any means necessary : tyranny, democracy, republic, and empire / Kevin S. Decker
- Humanizing technology : flesh and machine in Aristotle and The empire strikes back / Jerome Donnelly
- "A certain point of view" : lying Jedi, honest Sith, and the viewers who love them / Shanti Fader
- Religious pragmatism through the eyes of Luke Skywalker / Joseph W. Long.
