Jacob M. Held is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the editor of Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! R&L 2011.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Roald Dahl and Absurdity: Children's Literature and the Divorce between the Mind that Desires and the World that Disappoints
Jacob M. Held
1 Epicurus and the Chocolate Factory
Benjamin Rider
2 On Getting Our Just Desserts: Willy Wonka, Immanuel Kant, and the Summum Bonum
Jacob M. Held
3 Matilda, Existentialist Super-Hero
Elizabeth Butterfield
4 The Existential Journey of James Henry Trotter: Kierkegaard, Freedom, and Despair in James and the Giant Peach
Matthew Bokma and Adam Barkman
5 Of Mice and (Posthu)Man: Roald Dahl's The Witches and Ethics Beyond Humanism
Taine Duncan
6 "Who is this Crazy Man?": Willy Wonka's Uneasy Predicament
Cam Cobb
7 "He will be altered quite a bit:" Discipline and Punishment in Willy Wonka's Factory
Marc Napolitano
8 Matilda and the Philosophy of Education, or What's an Education For?
John V. Karavitis
9 Shattering the Glass Elevator: Authenticity and Social Order in the Works of Roald Dahl
Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale
10 The Fantastically Just Mr. Fox: Property and Distributive Justice According to Foxes and other Diggers
Jacob M. Held
11 Willy Wonka and the Imperial Chocolate Factory
Ron Novy
12 George's Marvelous Medicine, or: What Should We Do About Global Hunger?
Janelle Pötzsch
13 Crodswoggle, Flushbunking, and All Things Friendship in the BFG
Chad Kleist
14 Charlie and the Nightmare Factory: The Art of Children's Horror Fiction
Greg Littman
15 Brimful of Buzzburgers: A Human Bean's Wild Possibilities
Miranda Nell
16 Dewey, Negative Capability, and the Wonder of Roald Dahl
Tanya Jeffcoat
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