Metaphysics and the DC Universe
Editor: Matthew Brake
The universe of DC Comics has existed for 85 many years. During that time, a lot of writers, artists, and editors have expanded and additional to the lore of the DC universe. In carrying out so, a complex storyworld (what JRR Tolkien referred to as a “subcreation”) has emerged, a single with its personal complex heritage and inside logic. Portion of this inner logic includes metaphysical ideas about how the DC universe capabilities. This volume seeks to explicate the metaphysical strategies that have emerged in the DC universe.
This volume is not striving to use the DC Universe as a faint springboard or pretense to explore philosophical thoughts. Rather, this quantity needs contributors to deeply study and understand the heritage of the DC Universe and its tales. The objective is to comprehend the storyworld of the DC Universe (in the comics) and write about the metaphysics that are revealed “there.” For the sake of narrowing emphasis, the editor suggests that contributors aim on certain “Crisis” gatherings (i.e., Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, Infinite Disaster, and many others.), whilst stories from elsewhere in the publishing line can also be employed.
This quantity will favor Historic and Continental philosophical contributions (although Analytic philosophers are even now inspired to contribute).
The adhering to is a non-exhaustive list of probable subjects:
-What is the mother nature of private id in a frequently rebooting universe?
-What is does it imply to “be” Superman on a number of earths? Compound and attributes in the multiverse.
-Is time a area? Hypertime in Mark Waid’s The Kingdom
-Multiversal maps and Cosmology in the DC Universe
-Retroactive continuity, time travel, and backwards causation
-Various Timelines and Worlds: The One particular and the Numerous in the DC Universe
-Anaximander and the DC multiverse
-Does the universe have a moral law? Why bad guys reduce on Earth-One
-Cost-free will and Determinism in Grant Morrison’s Animal Gentleman
-Platonic emanations in Grant Morrison’s JLA and Last Disaster
–Nietzsche and the Eternal Return in Bryan Hitch’s Justice League and Grant Morrison’s The Return of Bruce Wayne
Abstracts, with a CV, are due April 30, 2024 and ought to be emailed to Matthew Brake at [email protected].
Essays for the e book really should be close to 5,000-6000 words.