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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

 

X-men and philosophy : astonishing insight and uncanny argument in the mutant X-verse / edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski. p. cm.—(The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series)

Includes index.

eISBN : 978-0-470-73036-2

1. X-Men (Fictitious characters) I. Housel, Rebecca. II. Wisnewski, Jeremy.

PN6728.X2X24 2009

741.5’973—dc22

2008045526