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White 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. $cWiley-Blackwell$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell Philosophy and Popculture Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-01809-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSuperman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's Philosophy!; Part One The Big Blue Boy Scout: Ethics, Judgment, and Reason; 1 Moral Judgment: The Power That Makes Superman Human; The Trinity of Moral Philosophy; But Like Superpowers, Ethics Only Gets You So Far; Tragic Dilemma in Your Pocket (Universe); I'm Walkin', Yes Indeed; Superman Did What?; What Makes Superman Human; Notes; 2 Action Comics!: Superman and Practical Reason; It's Practically Reasonable; More Powerful Than a Locomotive; We Could Be Heroes ... 327 $aSuperman vs. the CalculatorFaster Than a Speeding Bullet; The Virtues of Being Super; So Whom Does He Save?; Notes; 3 Can the Man of Tomorrow Be the Journalist of Today?; The Face and the Voice; A Reporter's Story; The Reporter of Steel; Superman Confidential: Seek Truth and Report It; The Big Forget: Act Independently; Wicked Business! Minimize Harm; Fatal Flaw?; Notes; 4 Could Superman Have Joined the Third Reich?: The Importance and Shortcomings of Moral Upbringing; ... Or Not; The Moral Education of a Superman; Superman: Son of the Third Reich; In the End, Hitler Still Loses; Notes 327 $aPart Two Truth, Justice, and the American Way: What Do They Mean?5 Clark Kent Is Superman!: The Ethics of Secrecy; What Is the Secret?; Superman for President!; The Secret Revealed!; Opening the Shirt; Letting in Lois; In the Vault; Notes; 6 Superman and Justice; It's All About Personal Liberty; Truth, Libertarian Justice, and the American Way; Great Rawls!; Behind the (Lead-Lined) Veil of Ignorance; Occupy Metropolis; Superman's Greatest Foe?; Notes; 7 Is Superman an American Icon?; Is Superman Giving Up on the American Way?; My Country, Right or Wrong-But Mostly Right 327 $aCan Superman Be a Citizen of the World?Cosmopolitanism Then and Now; The Appearance of Impropriety; Act Locally, Think Globally; Notes; Part Three The Will to Superpower: Nietzsche, the U?bermensch, and Existentialism; 8 Rediscovering Nietzsche's U?bermensch in Superman as a Heroic Ideal; Truth, Justice, and the Nietzschean Way; Putting the U?ber into the U?bermensch; The Nietzschean Superman; Superman vs. Clark Kent; S Is for Savior; Kneel Before Zod!; Perhaps ... Lex Luthor?; Nietzschean U?bermensch, American Christ, or Both?; Notes; 9 Superman or Last Man: The Ethics of Superpower 327 $aSurvival of the WeakestIntroducing Superman-Whether We Need Him or Not; Waiting for Superman; Resignation Superman; Singer vs. Nietzsche; It Ain't Easy Being Blue; Is He Worth It?; Notes; 10 Superman: From Anti-Christ to Christ-Type; U?bermensch as Anti-Christ; Lex Luthor: Super-Man?; Jesus Without the Christ; Moral Illumination; Trinitarian Movie Mythos; Is Superman Christ or a Christ-Type?; Seduction of the Innocent?; Notes; 11 Superman Must Be Destroyed!: Lex Luthor as Existentialist Anti-Hero; A Man Who Writes His Own Script; An Iconoclast; One Man Is an Island; The Anti-Hero of Faith 327 $aExistentialists Gone Wild! 330 $aGo beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel than just your average mythic superhero in a cape? 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