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Doctor Strange and Philosophy
The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge
William Irwin (Series edited by), Mark D. White (Edited by)
9781119437949, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 April 2018
288 pages
22.9 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.431 kg
Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963—and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big screen, introducing a new generation of fans to his mind-bending mysticism and self-sacrificing heroics. In Doctor Strange and Philosophy, Mark D. White takes readers on a tour through some of the most interesting and unusual philosophical questions which surround Stephen Strange and his place in the Marvel Universe. Essays from two-dozen Philosophers Supreme illuminate how essential philosophical concepts, including existentialism, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, relate to the world of Doctor Strange. Fans will find answers to all their Strange questions: How does Doctor Strange reconcile his beliefs in science and magic? What does his astral self say about the relationship between mind and body? Why is he always so alone? And what does he mean when he says we’re just “tiny momentary specks within an indifferent universe”—and why was he wrong? You won’t need the Eye of Agamotto to comprehend all that is wise within. Doctor Strange and Philosophy offers comic book fans and philosophers alike the chance to dive deeper into the world of one of Marvel’s most mystical superheroes.
Contributors: The Philosophers Supreme viii Acknowledgments: By the Glorious Grandiloquence of Gratitude! Xiv Introduction: Opening the Book of the Vishanti 1 Part I “You’re Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe” 3 1 Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One’s Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange 5 2 Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange 17 3 “Time Will Tell How Much I Love You”: A Nietzschean Übermensch’s Issues with Love and Friendship 25 4 Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange 35 Part II “Forget Everything That You Think You Know” 47 5 “Through an Orb Darkly”: Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge 49 6 Forbidden Knowledge and Strange Virtues: It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Know It 60 7 Doctor Strange, Socratic Hero? 68 8 Are We All “Looking at the World Through a Keyhole”?: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Bias 78 9 Stephen Strange vs. Ayn Rand: A Doesn’t Always Equal A 88 Part III “Reality Is One of Many” 99 10 Astral Bodies and Cartesian Souls: Mind‐Body Dualism in Doctor Strange 101 11 Scientists, Metaphysicians, and Sorcerers Supreme 111 12 “This Is Time”: Setting Time in Doctor Strange by Henri Bergson’s Clock 125 Part IV “A Man Looking at the World Through a Keyhole” 137 13 A Strange Case of a Paradigm Shift 139 14 Doctor Strange, the Multiverse, and the Measurement Problem 151 15 The Strange World of Paradox: Science and Belief in Kamar‐Taj 164 Part V “It’s Not About You” 175 16 The Otherworldly Burden of Being the Sorcerer Supreme 177 17 The Ancient One and the Problem of Dirty Hands 191 18 They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wong 197 19 Doctor Strange, Master of the Medical and Martial Arts 207 Part VI “I’ve Come to Bargain” 217 20 Is Dormammu Evil?: St. Augustine and the Dark Dimension 219 21 Doctor Strange and Leo Tolstoy: Brothers in Nonviolence? 228 22 Doctor Strange, Moral Responsibility, and the God Question 238 The Index of the All-Seeing Eye of Agamotto 250
George A. Dunn
Sander H. Lee
Skye C. Cleary
Paul DiGeorgio
Armond Boudreaux
Tuomas W. Manninen
Chad William Timm
Carina Pape
Edwardo Pérez
Dean A. Kowalski
Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas Richardson
Corey Latta
Brendan Shea
Philipp Berghofer
Matthew William Brake
Mark D. White
Michael Lyons
Daniel P. Malloy
Bruce Wright and E. Paul Zehr
Andrew T. Vink
Konstantin Pavliouts
Christopher P. Klofft
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
