John Wiley & Sons, Sachbücher, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy: Wisdom from Aang to Zuko (Englisch, Helen De C...

Contributors: Drawing Wisdom from Many Different Places viiiPreface xviAaron EhaszIntroduction: "We are all one people, but we live as if divided" 1Helen De Cruz and Johan De SmedtPart I: The Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender 51 Native Philosophies and Relationality in Avatar: The Last Airbender: It's (Lion) Turtles All the Way Down 7Miranda Belarde-Lewis(Zuni/Tlingit) and Clementine Bordeaux(Sicangu Oglala Lakota)2 Getting Elemental: How Many Elements Are There in Avatar: The Last Airbender? 16Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa3 The Personalities of Martial Arts in Avatar: The Last Airbender 25Zachary Isrow4 The End of the World: Nationhood and Abolition in Avatar: The Last Airbender 34Nicholas Whittaker5 The Bending World, a Bent World: Supernatural Power and Its Political Implications 43Yao LinPart II: Water 536 Avatar: The Last Airbender and Anishinaabe Philosophy 55Brad Cloud7 "Lemur!" - "Dinner!": Human-Animal Relations in Avatar: The Last Airbender 63Daniel Wawrzyniak8 On the Moral Neutrality of Bloodbending 71Johnathan Flowers9 On the Ethics of Bloodbending: Why Is It So Wrong and Can It Ever Be Good? 79Mike Gregory10 Mystical Rationality 88Isaac Wilhelm11 "I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me": Repairing the World Through Care 98Nicole Fice12 Spirits, Visions, and Dreams: Native American Epistemology and the Aang Gaang 105Justin Skirry and Samuel SkirryPart III: Earth 11513 Time Is an Illusion: Time and Space in the Swamp 117Natalia Strok14 There Is No Truth in Ba Sing Se: Bald-faced Lies and the Nature of Lying 124Nathan Kellen15 The Rocky Terrain of Disability Gain in Avatar: The Last Airbender: Is Toph a Supercrip Stereotype or a Disability Pride Icon? 133Joseph A. Stramondo16 The Earth King, Ignorance, and Responsibility 143Saba Fatima17 The Middle Way and the Many Faces of Earth 150Thomas ArnoldPart IV: Fire 15918 The Battle Within: Confucianism and Legalism in the Nation, the Family, and the Soul 161Kody W. Cooper19 Not Giving Up on Zuko: Relational Identity and the Stories We Tell 170Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap20 Uncle Iroh, From Fool to Sage - Or Sage All Along? 178Eric Schwitzgebel and David Schwitzgebel21 Being Bad at Being Good: Zuko's Transformation and Residual Practical Identities 188Justin F. White22 Compassion and Moral Responsibility in Avatar: The Last Airbender: "I was never angry I was afraid that you had lost your way" 197Robert H. WallacePart V: Air 20723 The Fire Nation and the United States: Genocide as the Foundation for Empire Building 209Kerri J. Malloy24 Anarchist Airbenders: On Anarchist Philosophy in Avatar: The Last Airbender 216Savriël Dillingh25 A Buddhist Perspective on Energy Bending, Strength, and the Power of Aang's Spirit 225Nicholaos Jones and Holly Jones26 Ahimsa and Aang's Dilemma: "Everyone . . . [has] to be treated like they're worth giving a chance" 235James William Lincoln27 The Avatar Meets the Karmapa: Interconnections, Friendship, and Moral Training 242Brett PattersonIndex 251.