Wiley Blackwell, 2013 | Order from Amazon
Part One
The Big Blue Boy Scout: Ethics, Judgment, and Reason
1 Moral Judgment: The Power That Makes Superman Human
Mark D. White
2 Action Comics! Superman and Practical Reason
Brian Feltham
3 Can the Man of Tomorrow Be the Journalist of Today?
Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman
4 Could Superman Have Joined the Third Reich? The Importance and Shortcomings of Moral Upbringing
Robert Sharp
Part Two
Truth, Justice, and American Way: What Do They Mean?
5 Clark Kent Is Superman! The Ethics of Secrecy
Daniel Malloy
6 Superman and Justice
Christopher Robichaud
7 Is Superman an American Icon?
Andrew Terjesen
Part Three
The Will to Superpower: Nietzsche, the Übermensch, and Existentialism
8 Rediscovering Nietzsche’s Übermensch in Superman as a Heroic Ideal
Arno Bogaerts
9 Superman or Last Man: The Ethics of Superpower
David Gadon
10 Superman: From Anti-Christ to Christ-Type
Adam Barkman
11 Superman Must Be Destroyed! Lex Luthor as Existentialist Anti-Hero
Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson
Part Four
The Ultimate Hero: What Do We Expect from Superman?
12 Superman’s Revelation: The Problem of Violence in Kingdom Come
David Hatfield
13 A World Without a Clark Kent?
Randall M. Jensen
14 The Weight of the World: How Much Is Superman Morally Responsible For?
Audrey L. Anton
Part Five
Superman and Humanity: A Match Made in Krypton?
15 Superman and Man: What a Kryptonian Can Teach Us About Humanity
Leonard Finkelman
16 Can the Man of Steel Feel Our Pain? Sympathy and Superman
Andrew Terjesen
17 World’s Finest Philosophers: Superman and Batman on Human Nature
Carsten Fogh Nielsen
Part Six
Of Superman and Superminds: Who Is Superman, Anyway?
18 “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s … Clark Kent?” Superman and the Problem of Identity
Nicolas Michaud
19 Superman Family Resemblance
Dennis Knepp
20 Why Superman Should Not Be Able to Read Minds
Mahesh Ananth
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MEDIA
- "How Do You Define a Hero?" on HearSay with Cathy Lewis (WHRV/NPR), June 6, 2013 (mp3)
- "Man of Steel: When Superman's Powers Can't Help Him," The Big Issue, May 1, 2013 (teaser for short article by White in the print magazine, no. 1049)
- Review in SFcrowsnest by Geoff Willmetts, May 22, 2013
- Review in The Scotsman by Stuart Kelly, May 11, 2013
- Review at Now Read This/Comics Review by Win Wiacek, April 25, 2013