Avatar: The Last Airbender & Philosophy by William Irwin (.ePUB)(.PDF)
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy: Wisdom From Aang to Zuko (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) by William Irwin, Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt
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Overview: The world is out of sorts. The four nations, Water, Earth, Fire and Air, are imbalanced because of the unrelenting conquest of the Fire Nation. The only one who can restore balance to the world is the Avatar.
On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world is a team effort, embodied in Team Avatar. Aang needs help from his friends and tutors and even from non-human animals. Through the teachings of Guru Pathik and Huu he comes to realize that though the world and its nations seem separate, we are all one people. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree.
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy brings to the fore the Eastern, Western and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show. Following Uncle Iroh’s advice that it is important to draw wisdom from many traditions, this volume features contributions by experts on Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian and Indigenous schools of thought, next to focusing on Western classical authors such as Plotinus, Kant and Merleau-Ponty. The volume is also unique in drawing on less common traditions such as black abolitionism, anarchism and the philosophy of martial arts.
Intertwining experience and reflection, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy helps readers to deeply engage with today’s burning questions, such as how to deal with ecological destruction, the aftermath of colonialism and genocide and wealth inequality, using the tools from a wide range of philosophical traditions.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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