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Stephen King and philosophy / edited by Jacob M. Held.

Held, Jacob M., 1977- editor.

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ISBN: 9781442253841
Physical Description: 314 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents: Introduction: On Writing Popular Philosophy / Jacob M. Held -- There is no God in Desperation: Tak and the Problem of Evil / Jacob M. Held and C. Taylor Sutton -- Female Subjectivity in Stephen King's Carrie / Kellye Byal -- "Sometimes Death is Better": King, Daedalus, Dragon-Tyrants, and Deathism / Katherine Allen -- "Gan is Dead": Nietzsche and Roland's Eternal Recurrence / Garret Merriam -- Rāma of Gilead: Hindu Philosophy in The Dark Tower / Matthew A. Butkus -- What's Wrong with Roland? Utilitarianism and the Dark Tower / Greg Littman -- Stephen King and Aristotelian Friendship: An Analysis of The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption / Bertha Alvarez Manninen -- Propaganda and Pedagogy for Apt Pupils / Michael K. Potter and Cam Cobb -- The Shining's Overlook Hotel as Heterotopia / Elizabeth Hornbeck -- Broadcast Dystopia: Power and Violence in The Running Man and The Long Walk / Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale -- Stephen King and the Art of Horror / Greg Littman -- "You weren't hired to philosophize, Torrance": The Death of the Author in The Shining / Charles Bane -- What Happens to the Present When it Becomes the Past: Time Travel and the Nature of Time in The Langoliers / Paul R. Daniels -- Notes on Foreknowledge, Truthmaking, and Counterfactuals from The Dead Zone / Tuomas W. Manninen -- Time Belongs to the Tower / Randall Auxier -- Ur 88,416 / Randall Auxier -- From Desperation to Haven: Horror, Compassion, and Arthur Schopenhauer / Jacob M. Held.