CONTENTS

Introduction: Eastwood as Philosopher

Richard T. McClelland and Brian B. Clayton

From Solitary Individualism to Post-Christian Stoic Existentialism: Quests for Community, Moral Agency, and Transcendence in the Films of Clint Eastwood

David H. Calhoun

Hereafter and the Problems of Evil: Clint Eastwood as Practical Philosopher

Brian B. Clayton

The Smile and the Spit: The Motivational Polarity and Self-Reliance Portrayed in The Outlaw Josey Wales and the Dollars Trilogy

James R. Couch

The Representation of Justice in Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter

Erin E. Flynn

Bad Men at Play: On the Banality of Goodness in Unforgiven

Richard Gilmore

Aristotle, Eastwood, Friendship, and Death

Jason Grinnell

Giving up the Gun: Violence in the Films of Clint Eastwood

Karen D. Hoffman

Eastwood, Romance, Tragedy

Deborah Knight and George McKnight

The Use of Silence in Hereafter: A Study in Neurocinematics

Richard T. McClelland

The Mortal Hero: Two Inductions on the Meaning of Loss

Richard T. McClelland

Eastwood’s Dream: The Philosophy of Absence in Hereafter

Douglas McFarland

Desperate Times Call for Existential Heroes: Eastwood’s Gran Torino and Camus’s The Plague

Jennifer L. McMahon

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index