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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... thinkers . While my own opinions will inevitably come through that can never be avoided - I hope that readers will feel that they are part of an exploration rather than simply the recipients of a body of knowledge . - It has become ...
... thinkers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762–1814 ) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770-1831 ) and , it could be argued , to disastrous effect for the early part of the twentieth century . The universal vs the particular This is ...
Mike Alsford. Index of Selected Thinkers and Authors Index of Selected Heroes and Villains. Aristotle 5 , 141 , 145 , 151 Augustine 49 , 73 , 91 , 112 , 145 , 146 , 152 Aquinas , T. 73 , 145 Barth , K. 42 , 143 , 151 ... Thinkers and Authors.
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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