[Popular Culture and Philosophy 37] • The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy by Auxier, Randall E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Title Page Ideas and Images of Oz I - Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? Chapter 1 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Moral Odyssey

Ding Dong, She’s Dead If I Only Had a Brain Follow the Yellow Brick Road Because, Because, Because, Because, Becaaaause . . . Somewhere Over the Rainbow If I Only Had a Heart There’s No Place Like Home

Chapter 2 - The Virtues of The Wizard of Oz

What Is Virtue? The Scarecrow: Friendship and the Intellect The Tin Man: The Heart of a Man Courage: Hearts and Minds Dorothy: Growing Up in the Land of Oz

Chapter 3 - Very Good, but Not So Mysterious: Hegel, Rushdie, and the ...

Chapter 4 - Freeing the Slaves in Oz

Dead Man’s Hand Sic Semper Tyrannis John Brown, The Great Emancipator Socrates, the Great Emancipator Socrates’s Coming Out Ball Dorothy and the Art of War

Chapter 5 - When the Wiz Goes Black, Does It Ever Go Back?

II - If I Only Had a Mind Chapter 6 - Oz Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man

Pieces of Me All of Me, Why Not Take All of Me? Stop! In the Name of Love The Oz Axe Massacre (with apologies to Texas) We’ll Meet Again Splitting Some Hairs I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay Meet Me in Oz, Ozzie There’s Gonna Be a Heartache Tonight Epilog-Rolling

Chapter 7 - Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain!

III - I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore Chapter 8 - “I’m Melting! Melting!”

Growing a Character (Just Don’t Add Water) Fairytales, Dreams, and Other Worlds It’s Just Your Imagination The Dream Scheme Once upon a Time Possible Ozzes In Munchkinland Where Is Oz? A Good Place to Visit, but Don’t Drink the Water Dissent in the Lollipop Guild The Loneliest Witch

Chapter 9 - Off to See the Wizard: The Romantic Eschatology of The Wizard of Oz

All’s Well that Ends Well Romantic Eschatology It Doesn’t Take a Hero Unconscious Unity: Kansas and the “Ungrund” Alienation: The Tornado and Falling Up to Oz If I Only Had a Mind If I Only Had a Cardiopulmonary Muscle Alienation: Wandering in the Woods Conscious Unity: “There’s No Place Like Home”

Chapter 10 - The Wonderful Smallness of Evil in Oz

Gonna Sweep That Evil Right Out the Door Wicked Witches, Deadly Poppies, and Fighting Trees Wickedness and Woe Who Needs Magic when You Got Virtue? It’s All for the Best Dorothy . . . and Her Little Dog Too Okay, on One Condition Old World Magic and New World Technology Eucatastrophe to the Rescue Roll Credits

Chapter 11 - The Possible World of Oz

Everyone’s a Critic Ding Dong! A Haunted Forest Dweebs, Nerds, Dorks, and Geeks A New Kind of Geek? Oh, the Possibilities! You Can’t Get There from Here The Tik-Tok Diagram Don’t Contradict Me! Getting to Oz

IV - (Completely) Over the Rainbow Chapter 12 - Dude, When Did Pink Floyd Write a Soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz?

The (106) Hidden Meaning(s) of Dark Side of the Rainbow (DSOTR) They Did It on Purpose It’s Synchronicity, Man Just a Fluke Making Meaning: Fleming, Floyd and You The Wicked Witch’s “Time” Money, It’s a Hit Come Together, Right Now, Over Me Okay, Now This Feels Like It’s Cued Up Juuuusssst Right Caution: This Can Be Habit-forming Wait, Did I Hit Pause? Where’d the Remote Get to . . . ?

Chapter 13 - Lions and Tigers and Bears: A Phenomenology of Scary Stuff

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience A Method in the Madness Primal Stuff Naughty Glinda? The Men behind the Curtain If I Only Had a Brain Your Body, Your World A Great Gig in the Sky Damnable Monkeys “These Things Must Be Done . . . Delicately . . .” Nightmares

V - No Place Like Home Chapter 14 - Coloring Kansas: Reality by Way of Appearance

Growing into Reality What Happened to Dorothy’s Parents? A Box of Sixty-Four Be Careful with That China, Little Girl Imagining Kansas The Homing Impulse All the Colors of the Rainbow It Isn’t Easy Being Green A Whiz of a Wiz? Home Again

Chapter 15 - A Sort of Homecoming: Growing Up with Dorothy

Plato’s Cave Allegory: A Rainbow at the End of the Tunnel? You Can’t (Quite) Go Home Again Home on the Range Kansases The Color of Home Return to Oz North of 125th Street Must I Repeat Myself?

Chapter 16 - Should Dorothy Have Stayed in Oz?

Dorothy’s Kansas Oz Philosophy Well, What Is the Best? The Paradox of Fiction Currie-ing Favor A Walt-on the Wild Side How Stories Work Dorothy’s Decision A Happy Ending

Chapter 17 - There’s No Place Like Home: Dorothy Gale’s Relations

VI - Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 18 - Wicked Feminism

Wicked Women The Mystery of Elphaba’s Gender Types You Can Play in Stereo What’s a Woman to Do (Philosophically)? Elphaba’s Connection with Animals Witch Liberation? Elphaba, the Political Animal Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Elphaba’s Fractured Self Mirror, Mirror

Chapter 19 - “I’m Not That Girl”

“Wicked” and “Evil” I Don’t Give a Damn about My Bad Reputation Naughty by Nature As Nasty as I Wanna Be

Chapter 20 - Wicked? It’s Not Easy Being Green

Hume and the Moral Sentiments Roots of Evil The Habit of Vengeance Revolution: Marx in Munchkinland The Good, the Bad, and the Wicked Ineptitude or Wickedness?

Chapter 21 - In the Merry Old Matriarchy of Oz

Crazy Johann (and Why Haven’t I Ever heard of this Guy?) Freddie and the Gods Freddie and the Malcontents With Friends Like These . . . The Public Catches On, Sort Of Boys and their Myths The Matriarchal Myths of Oz The Kumbric Witch The Yackle Moon A Pair of Spirits As Slow as Lurlinemas The Hymn of the Kouretes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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