Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)

Introduction: A Rorschach test --
The politics of power : who watches the watchmen? --
The superman exists, and he's American : morality in the face of absolute power / Christopher Obichaud --
Can we steer this rudderless world? : Kant, Rorschach, retributivism, and honor / Jacob M. Held --
Super vigilantes and the Keene Act / Tony Spanakos --
Superheroes and supermen : finding Nietzsche's Bermensch in Watchmen / Joseph Keeping --
The Veidt plan : Watchmen and ethics --
Means, ends, and the critique of pure superheroes / J. Robert Loftis --
The virtues of nite owl's potbelly / Mark D. White --
Rorschach : when telling the truth is wrong / Alex Nuttall --
The metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan --
Dr. Manhattan, I presume? / James DiGiovanna --
Dr. Manhattan and Bergson's theory of simultaneous time / Chris Drohan --
Free will and foreknowledge : does Jon really know what Laurie will do next and can she do otherwise? / Arthur Ward --
I'm just a puppet who can see the strings : Dr. Manhattan as a stoic sage / Andrew Terjesen --
This is not your father's comic book --
Why don't you go read a book or something? : watchmen as literature / Aaron Meskin --
Watchwomen / Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson --
Hooded justice and Captain Metropolis : the ambiguously gay duo / Robert Arp --
What's so goddamned funny? : the comedian and Rorschach on life's way / Taneli Kukkonen.