White Mark (ed.) Doctor Strange and philosophy: The other book of forbidden knowledge

Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 288 p. — ((The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture) — ISBN-10: 1119437946; ISBN-13: 978-1119437949.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.Introduction: Opening the Book of the Vishanti“You’re Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe”Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One’s Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange. George A. Dunn
Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange. Sander H. Lee
“Time Will Tell How Much I Love You”: A Nietzschean Übermensch’s Issues with Love and Friendship. Skye C. Cleary
Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange. Paul DiGeorgio“Forget Everything That You Think You Know”“Through an Orb Darkly”: Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge. Armond Boudreaux
Forbidden Knowledge and Strange Virtues: It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Know It. Tuomas W. Manninen
Doctor Strange, Socratic Hero? Chad William Timm
Are We All “Looking at the World Through a Keyhole”?: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Bias. Carina Pape
Stephen Strange vs. Ayn Rand: A Doesn’t Always Equal A. Edwardo Pérez“Reality Is One of Many”Astral Bodies and Cartesian Souls: Mind-Body Dualism in Doctor Strange. Dean A. Kowalski
Scientists, Metaphysicians, and Sorcerers Supreme. Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas Richardson
“This Is Time”: Setting Time in Doctor Strange by Henri Bergson’s Clock. Corey Latta“A Man Looking at the World Through a Keyhole”A Strange Case of a Paradigm Shift. Brendan Shea
Doctor Strange, the Multiverse, and the Measurement Problem. Philipp Berghofer
The Strange World of Paradox: Science and Belief in Kamar-Taj. Matthew William Brake“It’s Not About You”.The Otherworldly Burden of Being the Sorcerer Supreme. Mark D. White
The Ancient One and the Problem of Dirty Hands. Michael Lyons
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wong. Daniel P. Malloy
Doctor Strange, Master of the Medical and Martial Arts. Bruce Wright and E. Paul Zehr“I’ve Come to Bargain”Is Dormammu Evil?: St. Augustine and the Dark Dimension. Andrew T. Vink
Doctor Strange and Leo Tolstoy: Brothers in Nonviolence? Konstantin Pavliouts
Doctor Strange, Moral Responsibility, and the God Question. Christopher P. KlofftThe Index of the All-Seeing Eye of Agamotto