{"product_id":"destruction-ethics-and-intergalactic-love-9781032305172","title":"Destruction Ethics and Intergalactic Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDestruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring \u003c\/em\u003eY: The Last Man \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eSaga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close interdisciplinary reading and personal narratives, the author delves into the complex worlds of \u003cem\u003eY\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSaga\u003c\/em\u003e in search of an ethics, meaning, and a path resonant with real-world struggles. Reading these works side by side, the analysis draws parallels and seeks common themes around the four central ideas of seeking and making meaning in a meaningless world; love and parenting through oppression and grief; peacefulness when surrounded by violence; and the perils and hopes of diversity and communion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely and thoughtful study will resonate with scholars and students of comic studies, media an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I’m so happy this book exists!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHillary Chute\u003c\/strong\u003e, comics and graphic novels columnist for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design, Northwestern University, USA, and author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eWhy Comics?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What role can art (in this case, comics) play in our troubling time of plague and war? Peter Admirand’s loving, attentive reading of \u003cem\u003eSaga\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eY: The Last Man\u003c\/em\u003e are a powerful demonstration of what religious studies can contribute to helping us to understand the meaningfulness of popular culture, addressing questions such as the value of human expression in the face of an apocalypse and the need for moral choices when the world seems out of whack.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Jenkins\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eComics and Stuff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How do we do good surrounded by meaninglessness and the horrors of destruction? Is it possible to ground an ethics on a planet beset by plague, in a universe riven by war? These kinds of questions endure in the history of humanist thought, their importance as unrelenting as their intractability. Stepping into the fray, Admirand works through his readings of the rich imagetexts of \u003cem\u003eY: The Last Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSaga\u003c\/em\u003e in a brave quest to bring meaningful structure to the ethical quandaries of a human condition beset by meaningless and death. This book is vital—in all senses of the word. Reflective, intimate, generous, and unabashed, this book animates these questions with a persistent belief, but not a blind one, in the expansive and fundamental role of love in enabling meaning to flourish in even the darkest corners of the galaxy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Giddens\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor in Jurisprudence, University of Dundee, and Editor of \u003cem\u003eCritical Directions in Comics Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures; \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements: Joy and Gratitude Amidst Distress; \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction: Death, Decay, and Destruction: Only the Beginning; \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Seeking Meaning in a Meaningless World\u003c\/strong\u003e; 1. Ethics (and Art) After the Plague; 2. Inky Darkness: Ethics Amidst Intergalactic War (and The Narrative); Reflection on Part I; \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Love and Parenting Through Oppression and Grief\u003c\/strong\u003e; 3. Love and Identity: A Numeric and Heroic Journey; 4. (Intergalactic) Fatherhood: Failure and Maternal Hope; Reflection on Part II; \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Being Peace but Surrounded by Violence\u003c\/strong\u003e; 5. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Gender and Violence; 6. On the Perils of Pacifism During War; Reflection on Part III; \u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Beyond Diversity and Tolerance: Towards Communion\u003c\/strong\u003e; 7. Post-Religion: Sex, God, Women, Love; 8. Enfolding the Grotesque and the Borderless: A Politics for All; Reflection on Part IV; Conclusion: Love in the Throes of Destruction and Despair; \u003cem\u003eBibliography; \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018960732503,"sku":"9781032305172","price":33.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032305172.jpg?v=1750778826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/destruction-ethics-and-intergalactic-love-9781032305172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}