Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)

Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963—and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big screen, introducing a new generation of fans to his mind-bending mysticism and self-sacrificing heroics. In Doctor Strange and Philosophy , Mark D. White takes readers on a tour through some of the most interesting and unusual philosophical questions which surround Stephen Strange and his place in the Marvel Universe. Essays from two-dozen Philosophers Supreme illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, relate to the world of Doctor Strange. Fans will find answers to all their Strange questions: How does Doctor Strange reconcile his beliefs in science and magic? What does his astral self say about the relationship between mind and body? Why is he always so alone? And what does he mean when he says we're just "tiny momentary specks within an indifferent universe"—and why was he wrong? You won't need the Eye of Agamotto to comprehend all that is wise within. Doctor Strange and Philosophy offers comic book fans and philosophers alike the chance to dive deeper into the world of one of Marvel's most mystical superheroes. Content: Contents Notes on Contributors: The Philosophers Supreme Acknowledgments: By the Glorious Grandiloquence of Gratitude! Introduction: Opening the Book of the Vishanti Part I You re Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe 1 Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One s Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange 2 Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange 3 Time Will Tell How Much I Love You : A Nietzschean UEbermensch s Issues with Love and Friendship 4 Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange Part II Forget Everything That You Think You Know 5 Through an Orb Darkly : Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge 6 Forbidden Knowledge and Strange Virtues: It s Not What You Know, It s How You Know It 7 Doctor Strange, Socratic Hero? 8 Are We All Looking at the World Through a Keyhole ? Knowledge, Ignorance, and Bias 9 Stephen Strange vs. Ayn Rand: A Doesn t Always Equal A Part III Reality is One of Many 10 Astral Bodies and Cartesian Souls: Mind-Body Dualism in Doctor Strange 11 Scientists, Metaphysicians, and Sorcerers Supreme 12 This is Time : Setting Time in Doctor Strange by Henri Bergson s Clock Part IV A Man Looking at the World Through a Keyhole 13 A Strange Case of a Paradigm Shift 14 Doctor Strange, the Multiverse, and the Measurement Problem 15 The Strange World of Paradox: Science and Belief in Kamar-Taj Part V It s Not About You 16 The Otherworldly Burden of Being the Sorcerer Supreme 17 The Ancient One and the Problem of Dirty Hands 18 They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wong 19 Doctor Strange, Master of the Medical and Martial Arts Part VI I ve Come to Bargain 20 Is Dormammu Evil? St. Augustine and the Dark Dimension 21 Doctor Strange and Leo Tolstoy: Brothers in Nonviolence? 22 Doctor Strange, Moral Responsibility, and the God Question The Index of the All-Seeing Eye of Agamotto Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: The Philosophers Supreme -- Acknowledgments: By the Glorious Grandiloquence of Gratitude! -- Introduction: Opening the Book of the Vishanti -- Part I "You're Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe"--Chapter 1 Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One's Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange -- Heading East -- "Matter and Nothing More"--Looking Beyond Death -- "The World Is Not What It Ought to Be" -- Whither the Hinterworlds? -- "Pain Is an Old Friend" -- A Strange Realization -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange -- The Brilliant Doctor Strange -- The Accident and Kamar-Taj -- Tiny Momentary Specks within an Indifferent Universe -- Dark Powers -- Death Gives Meaning to Life -- Notes -- Chapter 3 "Time Will Tell How Much I Love You": A Nietzschean Übermensch's Issues with Love and Friendship -- Doctor Übermensch -- Problems with Love -- Noble Virtues -- Narcissism -- What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Strange -- A Shared Higher Thirst -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange -- A Strange Beginning -- Bad Faith and a Paradox -- Scientific Nihilism and Existential Anxiety -- The First Existential Step Is the Hardest -- Strange versus Kaecilius -- Strange's Hesitation -- The Final Turning Point -- The Existential Redefinition of Doctor Strange -- Notes -- Part II "Forget Everything That You Think You Know" -- Chapter 5 "Through an Orb Darkly": Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge -- How Do You Know? -- Seeing Is Not Believing -- Enter the Rationalists -- Descartes to the Rescue -- Cogito, Ergo Strange -- Defeating Descartes' Evil Demon -- By the Eye of Agamotto! -- Out of the Orb -- Notes

Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange

Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963—and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big screen, introducing a new generation of fans to his mind-bending mysticism and self-sacrificing heroics. In Doctor Strange and Philosophy, Mark D. White takes readers on a tour through some of the most interesting and unusual philosophical questions which surround Stephen Strange and his place in the Marvel Universe.

Essays from two-dozen Philosophers Supreme illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, relate to the world of Doctor Strange. Fans will find answers to all their Strange questions: How does Doctor Strange reconcile his beliefs in science and magic? What does his astral self say about the relationship between mind and body? Why is he always so alone? And what does he mean when he says we're just "tiny momentary specks within an indifferent universe"—and why was he wrong?

You won't need the Eye of Agamotto to comprehend all that is wise within. Doctor Strange and Philosophy offers comic book fans and philosophers alike the chance to dive deeper into the world of one of Marvel's most mystical superheroes.

La 4ème de couverture indque : "Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963--and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big screen, introducing a new generation of fans to his mind-bending mysticism and self-sacrificing heroics. In Doctor Strange and Philosophy, Mark D. White takes readers on a tour through some of the most interesting and unusual philosophical questions which surround Stephen Strange and his place in the Marvel Universe. Essays from two-dozen Philosophers Supreme illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, relate to the world of Doctor Strange. Fans will find answers to all their Strange questions: How does Doctor Strange reconcile his beliefs in science and magic? What does his astral self say about the relationship between mind and body? Why is he always so alone? And what does he mean when he says we're just “tiny momentary specks within an indifferent universe”--and why was he wrong ? You won't need the Eye of Agamotto to comprehend all that is wise within. Doctor Strange and Philosophy offers comic book fans and philosophers alike the chance to dive deeper into the world of one of Marvel's most mystical superheroes." "Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963--and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big screen, introducing a new generation of fans to his mind-bending mysticism and self-sacrificing heroics. In Doctor Strange and Philosophy, Mark D. White takes readers on a tour through some of the most interesting and unusual philosophical questions which surround Stephen Strange and his place in the Marvel Universe. Essays from two-dozen Philosophers Supreme illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, relate to the world of Doctor Strange. Fans will find answers to all their Strange questions: How does Doctor Strange reconcile his beliefs in science and magic? What does his astral self say about the relationship between mind and body? Why is he always so alone? And what does he mean when he says we're just 'tiny momentary specks within an indifferent universe'--and why was he wrong?"-- Amazon.com Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Essays from two-dozen philosophers illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, combine to make Doctor Strange one of the most complex characters in the Marvel Universe, and a welcome addition to the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture stable of superheroes.