Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back: This Is the Way

ISBN-13: 9781119841432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Eberl, Jason T.

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The Bad Batch viiiIntroduction xviiiPart I Episodes I-III 11 "Another Solution Will Present Itself": The Phantom Menace, Daoism, and Doing without Trying 3Russell P. Johnson2 Bioethics Wars: Fear and Fallacy in Revenge of the Sith 11Thomas D. Harter3 "A Pathway to Many Abilities Some Consider to Be Unnatural": The Natural Law Ethics of Star Wars 20Matthew Shea, Joel Archer, and Daniel Banning4 Mothers, Daughters, Rebels: Women's Bodies in Star Wars 30Aikaterini-Maria LakkaPart II Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch 415 Order 66: The Fragility of Moral Autonomy in The Clone Wars 43Timothy Challans6 "Corporations Do Not Rule Us!": The Separatist Freedom Movement and the Struggle for Justice 52Mohammed Shakibnia7 "No One Rescues Droids": Rebels on Race and Racism 62Steve Bein8 Individuality and Identity: Are Clones Literally a "Band (or Batch) of Brothers"? 73Patricia L. Brace9 The Failure of Jedi Ethics: The Jedi Betrayal of Ahsoka 82James Rocha and Mona Rocha10 Of Graffiti and Kalikoris 90Daniel P. Malloy11 A Long Time Ago? Time and Time Travel in Star Wars 99Philipp BerghoferPart III Rogue One and Solo 10912 Building the Death Star: Complicity in Moral Evil 111Jason T. Eberl13 "Rebellions Are Built on Hope": The Creative Democratic Force of Rogue One 122Terrance MacMullan14 Han Solo: The Corellian Evasion of Philosophy 132Kevin S. Decker15 Friendship, Love, and Sex with Droids in Solo: "How Would that Work?" "It Works" 143Nick Munn and Dan Weijers16 La L3-37 Continue: Droid Rights and the Problem of Legal Personhood 152Joshua JowittPart IV Episodes IV-VI 16317 The Non-dualistic, Redemptive Metaphysics of the Jedi 165Michael Baur18 Just How Many "Lukes" Are There in A New Hope, Anyway? 174Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen19 Force and Geist: Hegel Watches The Empire Strikes Back 183Umut Eldem20 "I Know There Is Good in You": Luke, Anakin, and Confucian Filial Piety 192Eric YangPart V The Mandalorian 19921 Should You Eat Baby Yoda? 201A.G. Holdier22 Grogu's Little Way: The Binds of Power and the Bonds of Love in The Mandalorian 209Jeffrey P. Bishop and Isabel Bishop23 Beneath the Helmet, Beyond the Way: The Mandalorian and Moral Decision-making 218Noam Ebner24 Paradox of Faith: The Way of Din Djarin and Kierkegaard 228Patrick Tiernan25 Reading the Mind of Din Djarin: The Music of The Mandalorian 236Lance BelluominiPart VI Episodes VII-IX 24526 Awakening Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in a Galaxy Far, Far Away 247Edwardo Pérez27 The Last Jedi's Despair: Did Episode VIII Ruin Luke Skywalker? 257David Kyle Johnson28 Deleuze, the Force of Becoming, and The Last Jedi 268Corry Shores29 Passionate Love, Platonic Love, and Force Love in Star Wars 276James Lawler30 The Rise of Rey Skywalker: The Importance of Community and Friends in Star Wars 284James M. OkapalIndex 293

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JASON T. EBERL is Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy and Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. He teaches and publishes on bioethics, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics. He is the editor of Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, co-editor (w/ Kevin S. Decker) of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy and The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy, as well as the original Star Wars and Philosophy and Star Trek and Philosophy, and co-editor (w/ George A. Dunn) of Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy and The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan.KEVIN S. DECKER is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Washington University near Spokane, Washington. There, he teaches ethics, Continental, and American philosophy. He is the co-editor (with Jason T. Eberl) of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy and The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy and editor or co-editor of eight other anthologies of popular culture and philosophy. His book Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who was published by I.B. Tauris in 2013.