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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... understanding of person- hood . All rational beings , claims Kant , must be regarded as ends in themselves and never as means . It is things and not people that are conditioned and rigidly dependent upon nature and its laws and The ...
... understanding and physical prowess - the ability to be able to hide behind things and to lift the child over ones head serves to establish and maintain this perception for quite some time . For a while the parent has to exercise power ...
... understanding , as found in List , with the positive German ideal which spoke of the individual as free in matters of morals and epistemology – a view that would find a more enduring and influential voice in the philosopher Nietzsche ...
Contents
Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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