Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Waste land: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

David Koepsell is an entrepreneur, author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on the intersection of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He has provided commentary for MSNBC, Fox News Channel, The Guardian, The Washington Times, NPR Radio, the Associated Press, and other media outlets. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Matthew Meyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, The Greeks, and Nietzsche, several chapters in the Wiley And Philosophy series, and journal articles on Nietzsche, Mystic River, environmental ethics, and colonialism.

Notes on Contributors Introduction Acknowledgments Politics after the Pox-Eclipse: Anarchy, State, and Dystopia 1. Post-apocalyptic Anarchism in Mad Max, Aeon Skoble 2. Even on the Road, Violence is not the Same as Power, Ian Drake and Tony Spanakos 3. Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature in the Wasteland, Greg Littman 4. The Political Economy of Bartertown: Embeddedness of Markets, Peak Oil, The Tragedy of the Commons, and Lifeboat Ethics, Paul Thomas 5. From Wee Jerusalem to Fury Road: Does Mad Max Depict a Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia?, Clint Jones The Man with No Name: Heroes and Finding Oneself Post-Apocalypse-Style 6. "Pray He's Still Out There": Heroism in the Mad Max Films, Karen Kohoutek 7. Bloodbags and Artificial Arms: Bodily Parthood in Mad Max: Fury Road, Josh Tepley 8. The Meaning of Life According to Mad Max: Fury Road, Kiki Berk Building a Better Tomorrow! Ethics in Mad Max (Alternative title: Just Deserts) 9. What Saves the World? Care and Ecofeminism, Leigh Kolb 10. Seeking the Good Life in the Wasteland, Kuzma 11. "We're Not to Blame!" Responsibility in the Wasteland, Justin Kitchen 12. "Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, you know?": Madness in Mad Max, Matthew P. Meyer 13. Justice, Reason, and the Road Warrior: A Mechanic Reads Plato, David Gordon Mother's Milk: Gender and Intersectionality 14. Homecoming as Homemaking: The Rise of the Matriarchy in Mad Max: Fury Road, Daniel Conway 15. Liberating Mother's Milk: Imperator Furiosa's Ecofeminist Revolution, Jacob Quick 16. Demarginalizing Aunty Entity and Dismantling Thunderdome, Eduardo Pérez and Thayani Jackson 17. Gayboy Berserkers at the Gate: Sex and Gender in the Wasteland, Jacob Held Wasteland Aesthetics: Music, Fashion, Australia, and Nature 18. Driving Insanity, Chaos, and Emotion: The Music of Mad Max, Lance Belluomini 19. Carapaces and Prosthetics: What Humans Wear in Mad Max: Fury Road, Laura Di Summa 20. Does it Matter How Australian the Apocalypse Is? , Greg Littman 21. The Moral Aesthetics of Nature: Bio-conservativism in Mad Max, David Koepsell Index