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This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Batman and the Superhero Comics: A Contribution to the Hermeneutics of the Genre
The Object of the Analysis
On Superheroes and Ideologies
The Batman Canon and the Category of Genre
The Method of Analysis
Towards the Specificity of the Object
How is Knowledge Possible in the Case of Comic Book Hermeneutics?
Chapter 2: Gotham and the Soul of the Contemporary City
Batman: from the City to the Panel
Gotham City, the Crime and the Identity: "I Shall Become a Bat"
Elseworlds: Batman in Moscow
Chapter 3: Batman and "the Political": Tonight, He is the Law
Constitutionalist State and State of Exception
Action and Inequality: Thomas Hobbes and the Founding of Modern State
Crisis, Power, and Decisionism: Carl Schmitt and the Suspension of Law
Superheroes and American Exceptionalism
Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Fascism!
Political Technologies of the Body: Reactionarism and its Methods
Punishment and Political Body
Utilitarianism and Power-knowledge
"Whodunit?": Batman, Holmes, and the Hermeneutics of Detection
Induction and Hyperspecialization
Hyperspecialization and Discipline
Batman and the Panopticon: Surveillance and Punishment
Between Biopolitics and Sovereignty: The Superhero and Governance
Chapter 4: The Savior and Nihilism
About Nihilism
I. S. Turgenev: Fathers and Sons and the Generational Break
F. M. Dostoevsky: Nihilism as Split
F. Nietzsche: Nihilism as the Death of References
Modern Hero as a Terrorist
The Knight-errant vs. the Displacement of the Modern Episteme
From Dostoevsky to Batman
Avengers: Resentment and Reaction
Excursus: Batman Gothic (Variations on a Romantic Theme)
Chapter 5: On Villains and Supermen
The "Last Man" vs. the "Meaning/Sense of Earth"
The Supervillain Affair
In the Gallery of Mirrors
Joker: "This is my Card"
Madness and Otherness
Towards a Genealogy of Madness
From the Tragic to the Classical Experience of Madness
The Medicalization of Madness
The Doctor, the Vigilante, and the Asylum
Visions of Madness
Diderot's Rameau's Nephew: Towards a Typology of the Underground
Dostoevsky's Underground Man: The Great Resistance
The Joker, the Camel and the Lion
"Let's Put a Smile on that Face": Towards a Philosophy of the Carnival
Chapter 6: Joker and the Carnival of Laughter
Joker and "Grotesque Realism"
The Polyphonic Novel
Discourse in the Comic
An Exercise in Polyphonic Reading in the Superheroic Comic-book (I): Arkham Asylum. A Serious House on Serious Earth
An Exercise in Polyphonic Reading in the Superheroic Comic-book (II): Luthor... You Are Driving Me Sane
