The philosophy of the western
The philosophy of popular culture
Philosophy of popular culture.
The cowboy way : the essence of the western hero. "Do not forsake me, oh, my darling" : loneliness and solitude in westerns / Civilization and its discontents : the self-sufficient western hero / Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be pragmatists / Two ways to Yuma : Locke, liberalism, and western masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma / Landscapes of gendered violence : male love and anxiety on the railroad / The code of the West : the cowboy and society. "Order out of the mud" : Deadwood and the state of nature / Order without law : The Magnificent Seven, East and West / From dollars to iron : the currency of Clint Eastwood's westerns / The duty of reason: Kantian ethics in High Noon / Outlaws : challenging conventions of the western. The cost of the code : ethical consequences in High Noon and the Ox-Bow Incident / "Back off to what?" The search for meaning in The Wild Bunch / No Country for Old Men : the decline of ethics and the west(ern) / The northwestern : McCabe and Mrs. Miller / On the fringe : the encounter with the other -- Savage nations : Native Americans and the western / Regeneration through stories and song : the view from the other side of the west in Smoke Signals / Go west, young woman! "Hegel's dialectic and women's identities in western films / Beating a live horse : the elevation and degradation of horses in westerns
McMahon, Jennifer L., editor.
Csaki, B. Steve, editor.
Shai Biderman -- Douglas J. Den Uyl -- B. Steve Csaki -- Stephen J. Mexal -- Lindsey Collins -- Paul A. Cantor -- Aeon J. Skoble -- David L. McNaron -- Daw-Nay Evans -- Ken Hada -- Richard Gaughran -- William J. Devlin -- George McKnight -- Michael Valdez Moses -- Richard Gilmore -- Gary Heba and Robin Murphy -- Jennifer L. McMahon.
edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki.
