James Bond and Philosophy Questions Are

James Bond came into the world in the novel Casino Royale in 1953, and hit the movie screens with Dr. No in 1962. Bond has become one of the best-known personalities, real or imagined, in human history: one out of every four people in the entire world has now seen a Bond movie. With the firing of Pierce Brosnan and the hiring of Daniel Craig as the new screen Bond, fascination with the Bond phenomenon is at an all-time high. 2006 is scheduled to see the twenty-first Bond film, Casino Royale, as well as the "authorized biography" of James Bond.

Oh, Spare Me This Sentimental Rubbish

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Tell Me, Commander, How Far Does Your Expertise Extend into the Field of Philosophy?

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SECTION I No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die

Bond, Existentialism, and Death

1. Being-Towards-Death and Taking Pleasure in Beauty: James Bond And Existentialism

BETH BUTTERFIELD

3

(14)

2. How to Live (and How to Die)

MAHLETE-TSIGÉ GETACHEW

17

(18)

3. Six to Four Against: James Bond and the Hope for a Meaningful Life

JAMES B. SOUTH

35

(12)

SECTION II Mr. Bond Is Indeed a Very Rare Breed

The Man Behind the Number

47

(62)

4. Bond and Phenomenology: Shaken, Not Stirred.

SUZIE GIBSON

49

(14)

5. He Who Eats Meat Wins: Appetite, Power, and Nietzsche in the Novels of Ian Fleming

SUE MATHESON

63

(16)

6. James Bond: A Nietzschean for the Cold War

ISHAY LANDA

79

(16)

7. Bond as Chivalric, Comic Hero

CHARLES TALIAFERRO and MICHEL Le GALL

95

(14)

SECTION III For England, James?

Bond, Politics, and Law

109

(46)

8. The Moral Status of the Double-0 Agent: Thinking about the License to Kill

MATTHEW TEDESCO

111

(10)

9. "Just a Stupid Policeman": Bond and the Rule of Law

GREG FORSTER

121

(18)

10. "Don't You Men Know Any Other Way?" Punishment Beyond Retributivism and Deterrence

JACOB M. HELD

139

(16)

SECTION IV Oh, Don't Be an Idiot, 007

Knowledge and Technology

155

(44)

11. The Epistemology of James Bond: The Logic of Abduction

JEROLD J. ABRAMS

157

(16)

12. James Bond and Q: Heidegger's Technology, or "You're Not a Sportsman, Mr. Bond"

STEVEN ZANI

173

(14)

13. James Bond and the Philosophy of Technology: It's More than Just the Gadgets of Q Branch

WILLIAM J. McKINNEY

187

(12)

SECTION V Why Do Chinese Girls Taste Different from All Other Girls?

Multiculturalism, Women, and a More Sensitive Bond

199

(30)

14. "That Fatal Kiss": Bond, Ethics, and the Objectification of Women

ROBERT ARP and KEVIN S. DECKER

201

(14)

15. The New Millennium Bond and Yin-Yang Chinese Cosmology

DEAN A. KOWALSKI

215

(14)

James Bond Will Return

229

(4)

For Your Eyes Only: Authors' Dossiers

233

(4)

Index Provided Courtesy of Universal Exports

237

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