2013
DOI: 10.1017/s1049096513001698
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Hell's Kitchen's Prolonged Crisis and Would-be Sovereigns: Daredevil, Hobbes, and Schmitt

Abstract: Comic book heroes often have their origins innoirdepictions of failed or failing states. The danger involved and the seeming anarchy that necessitates superheroes recall Hobbes's description of a state of nature and Leviathan as resolution. But comic book heroes generally inhabit states that are better identified by the Hobbes-inspired Carl Schmitt. Indeed, this articles argues that while the Hell's Kitchen ofDaredevilcomics has some characteristics of a state of nature, it is better characterized by the protr… Show more

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