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Across Movements, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, and Comics & Graphic Novels — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Comics as Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin.

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Transcendental Concord — Lisa McCarty

Transcendental Concord

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Transcendentalism A Reader — Joel Myerson

Transcendentalism A Reader

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation — Roderick Tweedy

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

Roderick Tweedy

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

The Machinery of Talk Charles Peirce and the Sign Hypothesis — Anne Freadman

The Machinery of Talk Charles Peirce and the Sign Hypothesis

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Jacques Derrida Opening Lines — Marian Hobson

Jacques Derrida Opening Lines

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Freud — Jonathan Lear

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Difference, Dialogue, and Development A Bakhtinian World — Lakshmi Bandlamudi

Difference, Dialogue, and Development A Bakhtinian World

Lakshmi Bandlamudi

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Witness Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom — Ariel Burger

Witness Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Shakespeare’s Identities Psychological and Mythic Perspectives — James P. Driscoll

Shakespeare’s Identities Psychological and Mythic Perspectives

James P. Driscoll

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Philosophy in Children’s Literature — Peter Costello

Philosophy in Children’s Literature

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Sartre Romantic Rationalist — Iris Murdoch

Sartre Romantic Rationalist

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Second Chances Shakespeare and Freud — Stephen Greenblatt

Second Chances Shakespeare and Freud

Stephen Greenblatt

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Modern Times Selected Non-fiction — Jean-Paul Sartre

Modern Times Selected Non-fiction

Jean-Paul Sartre

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Anti-music Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars — Mark Christian Thompson

Anti-music Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars

Mark Christian Thompson

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Dark Ecology For a Logic of Future Coexistence — Timothy Morton

Dark Ecology For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Intoxication — Jean-Luc Nancy

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Dao and Sign in History Daoist Arche-semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China — Daniel Fried

Dao and Sign in History Daoist Arche-semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays — Ato Sekyi-Otu

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism — Rob Weatherill

The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

The Amateur The Pleasures of Doing what You Love — Andy Merrifield

The Amateur The Pleasures of Doing what You Love

Andy Merrifield

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory — Evan Gottlieb

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Finite Transcendence Existential Exile and the Myth of Home — Steven A. Burr

Finite Transcendence Existential Exile and the Myth of Home

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

All Things Are Possible — Leo Shestov

All Things Are Possible

Themes: Movements • Literary Criticism • Philosophy

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Movements, Literary Criticism, Philosophy — the same threads that run through Comics as Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin. Among the authors featured: Lisa McCarty, Joel Myerson, Roderick Tweedy, Anne Freadman, and others.

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