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For most of us, the secret identities and flying abilities of superheroes like Spider-Man and Superman are just part of the stories - and they're as remote from our own possibilities as, say, living underwater without a breathing apparatus and heavy footwear. Artist Luca Buvoli, by contrast, brings the superpowers (and problems) of comic-book heroes to life through his multimedia explorations, and he uses the subject to address issues of popular culture, philosophy and science.
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Funny subtitles are the name of the game for the Popular Culture and Philosophy Series published by Open Court. The series is designed to make philosophy accessible to the general public through pop cultural references. Subtitles of past books toyed with the Sopranos ("I Kill Therefore I Am"), baseball ("Thinking Outside the Batter's Box"), Harry Potter ("If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts"), Monty Python ("Nudge Nudge, Think Think") and the Lord of the Rings ("One Book to Rule Them All").
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Hofstra Cultural Center, acclaimed internationally for its academic contributions in art, music, literature, history, science, philosophy, popular culture and drama, celebrates its third decade. One of the series for which the Hofstra Cultural Center is best known is its Presidential Conferences. Beginning in 1982 with FDR, the conferences on his and subsequent presidencies have brought together scholars from a wide variety of fields, journalists, former government officials and, in some cases, the former presidents themselves to subjectively discuss the policies and issues of the various presidential administrations.
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Comic-book superheroes have once again invaded America's movieplexes, with Batman and the Fantastic Four fighting the good fight in theaters. Beyond their simple entertainment value is something more -- much more, according to "Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice and the Socratic Way." The new book, which views superheroes through a scholarly but lively prism, is the latest in a series of "Philosophy and Popular Culture" books from Open Court Publishing.
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Just as comparative anatomy gave us Darwin's concept of evolution and comparative linguistics Chomsky's generative grammar, so the comparative study of literature, philosophy, or popular culture might well be expected to generate the kind of paradigm-shifting knowledge and theory that could lift us beyond outmoded parochialisms. For surely an honest, open attempt to come to terms with a "foreign culture" requires belief as well, a leap sustained by the faith that on the other side of the divide we will find not absence and mystery and absolute foreignness, but rather a fresh improvisation on a faintly familiar theme, conveying all the richness and variety and fullness of human life played out in an unfamiliar key.
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...Burns, Kate, ed. Rap music and culture. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2008. 192 p. ISBN ...Postcolonial distances: the study of popular music in Canada and Australia. Newcastle: Cam brid...Johnny Cash and philosophy: the burning ring of truth. Chicago, IL: Open Cour...
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... been promoted in countless articles in popular magazines and elementary-school textbooks. . The h..., experiments, and a professional culture--did not appear until the nineteenth century, but ... different from the natural philosophy practiced by the likes of Aristotle or Avicenna. A...
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...BINDING: Paperback. SERIES: Popular culture and philosophy; v.51. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ...
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...BINDING: Paperback. SERIES: Popular culture and philosophy; v.42. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ...
