LEADER 09355nam 22005893 450 001 9911019468803321 005 20240627132315.0 010 $a9781119870494 010 $a1119870496 010 $a9781119870517 010 $a1119870518 035 $a(CKB)31073500600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31227184 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31227184 035 $a(Exl-AI)31227184 035 $a(OCoLC)1428258404 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931073500600041 100 $a20240328d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMad Max and Philosophy $eThinking Through the Wasteland 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNewark :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) 225 1 $aThe Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 311 08$a9781119870487 311 08$a1119870488 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Doing Philosophy in the Wasteland -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Politics after the Pox-Eclipse: Anarchy, State, and Dystopia -- Chapter 1 Post-apocalyptic Anarchism in Mad Max -- Anarchy and Apocalypse -- Roaming the Wasteland -- Not All Government Is Good Government -- Anarchism and Voluntarism -- Is This Anarchy? -- It Doesn't Have to Be Humungus -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Even on the Road, Violence Is Not the Same as Power -- "Only Those Mobile Enough to Scavenge, Brutal Enough to Pillage Survived" -- Why "Lord" Humungus Has Epithets -- Having a Toadie and Going Kamakrazee -- Lords and Immortans: Order and Power -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature in the Wasteland -- "My Name Is Max. My World Is Fire and Blood"-Max, Fury Road -- Not Even Max Can Make It Alone -- "Bartertown's Learned. Now, When Men Get to Fighting, It Happens Here, and It Finishes Here!"-Thunderdome Announcer -- "We Do It My Way"-Lord Humungus, Ayatollah of Rock-and-Rolla -- Beyond the White Line Nightmare -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Political Economy of Bartertown: Embeddedness of Markets, Peak Oil, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Lifeboat Ethics -- Bartertown and the Embeddedness of Markets -- Peak Oil -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Can We Escape the Tragedy? -- Lifeboat Ethics -- The Future -- Notes -- Chapter 5 From Wee Jerusalem to Fury Road: Does Mad Max Depict a Post-apocalyptic Dystopia? -- Pox-Eclipse Full of Pain: Apocalyptic Themes -- You Can Shovel Shit Can't You?: Dystopian Themes -- Nomad Bikers, Bulk Trouble -- A Maggot Living off the Corpse of the Old World -- By My Deeds I Honor Him, V8! -- Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves -- But He's Just a Raggedyman -- Notes -- Part 2 The Man with No Name: Heroes and Finding Oneself Post-apocalypse Style. 327 $aChapter 6 "Pray He's Still out There": Heroism in the Mad Max Films -- "Down the Long Haul, into History Back" -- We Don't Need Another Hero with a Thousand Faces -- We Don't Need Another Absurd Hero -- "Where Must We Go, We Who Wander This Wasteland, in Search of Our Better Selves?" -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Bloodbags and Artificial Arms: Bodily Parthood in Mad Max: Fury Road -- Adhesion: "You Want That Thing off Your Face?" -- Bonding: "Don't Damage the Goods" -- Life: "They've Got My Blood" -- Function: "If You Can't Stand Up, You Can't Do War" -- Integration: "Got Everything You Need" -- Life or Integration: "We're the Only Ones Left" -- Arguing for Integration: "That's My Head!" -- Tattoos and Artificial Arms: "Now We Bring Home the Booty" -- Conclusion: "He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About!" -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Meaning of Life According to Mad Max: Fury Road -- Nux's Faith, Crisis, and Purpose -- Max: From Survival to a Meaningful Life -- Furiosa as a Role Model for a Better Self -- Objective Values -- A Meaningful Life on the Fury Road? -- Notes -- Part 3 Building a Better Tomorrow! Ethics in Mad Max -- Chapter 9 What Saves the World? Care and Ecofeminism -- Who Killed the World? -- I Thought You Girls Were Above All That -- We Are Not Things -- Breeding Stock and Battle Fodder -- Out Here, Everything Hurts -- We're Not Going Back -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Seeking the Good Life in the Wasteland -- Life in the Wasteland -- Who Killed the World? -- Moral Force Patrol -- Nietzsche or Aristotle? Immortan Joe or Furiosa? -- What the First History Man Knew -- "We Might Be Able to ? Together ? Come Across Some Kind of Redemption" -- "Where Must We Go, We Who Wander This Wasteland in Search of Our Better Selves?" -- Notes -- Chapter 11 "We're Not to Blame!" Responsibility in the Wasteland -- Henchmen and Marauders: A Problem of Many Hands. 327 $a"Witness!" War Boys and Responsibility -- "Some Got the Luck ... and Some Don't" -- Murderer or Just Kamakrazee? -- "Where Must We Go ??" Who's Responsible? -- Notes -- Chapter 12 "Look, Any Longer out on That Road and I'm One of Them, You Know?": Madness in Mad Max -- Terminal Crazies: Madness and Contagion -- "I Was Sick!": Responsibility and Madness -- Hanging by a Thread: The Furrow of Reason -- "Unleash My Dogs of War": Confinement and Animality -- "I Am Your Lord!": Cults, Shared Psychosis, and Responsibility -- "? One of Them, You Know?" -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Justice, Reason, and the Road Warrior: A Mechanic Reads Plato -- Reason Belongs in the Driver's Seat -- Administrator of Street Justice -- Real Men Eat Dog Food and Fear the Wasteland -- Notes -- Part 4 Mother's Milk: Gender and Intersectionality -- Chapter 14 Homecoming as Homemaking: The Rise of the Matriarchy in Mad Max: Fury Road -- A Stranger Comes to Town ... -- Time for a New Plan -- Nietzsche's Critique of Idealism -- Something Like Redemption -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Liberating Mother's Milk: Imperator Furiosa's Ecofeminist Revolution -- The Inhumanity of the Citadel -- Humanized Humans and Animalized Humans -- The Citadel's Animalized Humans -- Feminized Animals and Animalized Women -- Immortan Joe's Unnatural Empire -- "We Are Not Things!" -- "Who Killed the World?" -- Where Must We Go? -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Demarginalizing Aunty Entity and Dismantling Thunderdome -- What's Race Got to Do with It? -- "You Can Shovel Shit, Can't You?" -- "Welcome to Another Edition of Thunderdome!" -- "But How the World Turns" -- Black Dystopia: "So Much for History" -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Gayboy Berserkers at the Gate: Sex and Gender in the Wasteland -- We Don't Need Another (S)Hero: Beyond Thunderdome, Beyond Sex and Gender -- Everybody's Looking for Something. 327 $aThis Ain't One Body's Tell, It's the Tell of Us All -- Notes -- Part 5 Wasteland Aesthetics: Music, Fashion, Australia, and Nature -- Chapter 18 Driving Insanity, Chaos, and Emotion: The Music of Mad Max: Fury Road -- "High-Octane Crazy Blood Fillin' Me Up" -- "Oh, What a Day! What a Lovely Day!" -- "You Want That Thing off Your Face?" -- "I Can't Wait for Them to See It ? Home ? the Green Place" -- "If You Can't Fix What's Broken, You'll Uh ? You'll Go Insane" -- "Max. My Name Is Max ? That's My Name" -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Carapaces and Prosthetics: What Humans Wear in Mad Max: Fury Road -- Guzzolene and Aqua Cola: Bodies, Machines, and Survival -- Staring at Furiosa -- Reflecting on Max -- In Closing: Thinking About the Body in Mad Max -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Does It Matter How Australian the Apocalypse Is? -- What Is It for a Film to Feel Australian? -- Does the Mad Max Franchise Owe Something to Australians? -- Is It Important for Australians to See Themselves Represented? -- Making Sense in a World Gone Mad -- Shouldn't Films Come in All Flavors? -- Everyone Should Have an Aussie Hero -- Notes -- Chapter 21 The Moral Aesthetics of Nature: Bioconservativism in Mad Max -- Man Versus Machine -- Broken Bodies in the Wasteland -- Nature and Dignity in Mad Max -- Each of Us in Our Own Way Was Broken -- No Nature, No Dignity -- Notes -- Index -- EULA. 330 $aMad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland is part of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which aims to make philosophy accessible by exploring its connections with popular culture. 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