Heroes and VillainsHercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear. Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad. |
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... individuals and their satisfaction have and receive their fulfilled reality , inter - mediation , and persistence'.23 Hegel does indeed appear to glorify the state . The state is not simply a mechanism for the protection of individual ...
... individual value system , to use force to create a world that is essentially an extension of their own will . As early on as the mid - 1820s the followers of the social scientist Claude Henri de Saint - Simon were using the term ...
... individual is led into being a function of the herd and to ascribing value to himself only as a function Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.15 ... By contrast , the true autonomous individual is the superman , the one who ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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