Reviews for Supervillains and Philosophy

The average rating for Supervillains and Philosophy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-03 00:00:00 Clara Sletter This anthology of essays on the implications of philosophy for comic book super villains is rather uneven. Some essays, like O'Neil's and Baringer's, make a serious, scholarly effort to examine particular philosophical issues of specific characters or plot arcs. The most fun are the contributions that are written in-universe, such as those by Foresman, and Arinder and Milton. Much of the rest is either painfully dull logic exercises or summaries of plot lines with little philosophical analysis. Plato and utilitarianism are pretty thoroughly covered, but don't bother consulting this as a philosophy textbook. Some parts will be interesting for fans of comic books, but much is mediocre.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-01 00:00:00 Edgar Laboy I enjoyed it. Much like the other books in the "... and Philosophy" series it's a collection of essays on philosophy in relation to a particular subject. As you can imagine, the theme of this collection is supervillains. My biggest complaint is the same as most other anthologies: it's somewhat uneven. I also think it suffers a bit from not having a longer page count and the various authors not getting to go into more depth with their essays. Both minor nitpicks for an otherwise good collection. I would recommend this to fans of comics and philosophy.