Die Philosophie bei Batman: Eine Reise in die Seele des Dark Knight

Von Mark D. White, Robert Arp, William Irwin und Brigitte Döbert

Batman ist einer der komplexesten und ambivalentesten Charaktere der Comic-Welt. Um ihn und sein Tun drehen sich eine Menge Fragen:
Welchen philosophischen Belastungen und Herausforderungen muss er sich beim Schutz von Gotham City stellen? Was treibt seine Gegenspieler an? Ist Batman in seiner Menschlichkeit besser als Superman?
Die Philosophie bei Batman bietet unterhaltsame Antworten und Einblicke in Batmans Welt. Das Buch zeigt wie der Dark Knight zum Beispiel mit ethischen Fragen, moralischer Verantwortung, seinem Wunsch nach Rache an den Mördern seiner Eltern und seiner geheimen Identität ringt. Dabei beschäftigen sich die Autoren mit bekannten Philosophen wie Plato, Aristoteles, Kant, Nietzsche und Kierkegaard.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 3. Juli 2013
• ISBN: 9783527659432

Mark D. White

Mark D. White is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and a member of the economics doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center of CUNY. His recent books include The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics (editor) (2019) and Batman and Ethics (2019).

Rezensionen für Die Philosophie bei Batman

[switchknitter · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I liked this. I need to read some Heidegger now...

[9inchsnails · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I enjoyed this. There were high points and low points; the piece on Batman's Nietzschean self-creation bordered on ridiculous, but Tony Spanakos' article "Governing Gotham" was brilliant. All-in-all, this was a lot more in-depth and thought-provoking than I was expecting.

[aadyer · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Excellent overview & there are some brilliant essays in this, making this surprisingly accessible at times. There are some duff efforts and there are some mediocre efforts but these are few & far between. Any Batman fan would get something out of this, and anyone with an interest in philosophy (Western or eastern) will also find parts of this rewarding. Serious but worth the effort

[atia_15 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

I should know better than to read books like this. Like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy", this sounded interesting and intriguing, but at the end of the day it's really just a bunch of academics trying to find a justification to write about something they really enjoy. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but - okay, I'm probably mostly angry with myself for reading all of this. I do think there are interesting questions that can be asked about Batman, but the way those questions are dealt with here was in most cases highly unsatisfying. It's an odd mix of using different philosopher's theory to illustrate a point about Batman and of using Batman to illustrate a point about a certain philosopher's theory. Some essays are actually cringe-worthy in their enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong - hey, I'm the Queen of Enthusiasm, but there's such a thing as too much. Or rather - don't try to be funny when you're really not. I also have to agree with another reviewer on here in that this reads awefully biased. Again, I myself am a huge fan of Batman, but even when there's a critical question to be raised, in the end Batman is right. If this book was called "Wanking about Batman", it'd be one thing, but "Batman and Philosophy", this is not.

[storyjunkie · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

I wrote a sputtering set of comments when I decided that I didn't have to continue reading this book. The surface treatment of the very interesting issues brought up by Batman, and the iconic storylines of his recent history (_Dark Knight Returns_ to present, roughly) is almost worse than just reading the more composed meta comments on any comics message board. If I wanted "Batman is Cool, and Also Right!" propaganda, I know where to get that for free, and I'm disheartened to find cherry-picked analysis supports in something that I turned to in hopes of addressing the problematic nature of Batman-as-hero.