John Wiley & Sons, 2008
PART ONE THE POLITICS OF POWER: WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?
1 The Superman Exists, and He’s American: Morality in the Face of Absolute Power (Christopher Robichaud)
2 Can We Steer This Rudderless World? Kant, Rorschach, Retributivism, and Honor (Jacob M. Held)
3 Super-Vigilantes and the Keene Act (Tony Spanakos)
4 Superheroes and Supermen: Finding Nietzsche’s Übermensch in Watchmen (J. Keeping)
PART TWO THE VEIDT PLAN: WATCHMEN AND ETHICS
5 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes (J. Robert Loftis)
6 The Virtues of Nite Owl’s Potbelly (Mark D. White)
7 Rorschach: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong (Alex Nuttall)
PART THREE THE METAPHYSICS OF DR. MANHATTAN
8 Dr. Manhattan, I Presume? (James DiGiovanna)
9 A Timely Encounter: Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson (Christopher M. Drohan)
10 Free Will and Foreknowledge: Does Jon Really Know What Laurie Will Do Next, and Can She Do Otherwise? (Arthur Ward)
11 I’m Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Dr. Manhattan as a Stoic Sage (Andrew Terjesen)
PART FOUR THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S COMIC BOOK
12 “Why Don’t You Go Read a Book or Something?” Watchmen as Literature (Aaron Meskin)
13 Watchwomen (Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson)
14 Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis: The Ambiguously Gay Duo (Robert Arp)
15 What’s So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life’s Way (Taneli Kukkonen)
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