Introduction: Roald Dahl and absurdity: children's literature and the divorce between the mind that desires and the world that disappoints / Jacob M. Held
Epicurus and the chocolate factory / Benjamin A. Rider
On getting our just desserts: Willy Wonka, Immanuel Kant, and the summum bonum / Jacob M. Held
Matilda, existentialist superhero / Elizabeth Butterfield
The existential journey of James Henry Trotter: Kierkegaard, freedom, and despair in James and the giant peach / Matthew Bokma and Adam Barkman
Of mice and (posthu)man: Roald Dahl's The witches and ethics beyond humanism / Taine Duncan
"Who is this crazy man?": Willy Wonka's uneasy predicament / Cam Cobb
"He will be altered quite a bit:" discipline and punishment in Willy Wonka's factory / Marc Napolitano
Matilda and the philosophy of education, or what's an education for? / John V. Karavitis
Shattering the glass elevator: authenticity and social order in the works of Roald Dahl / Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale
The fantastically just Mr. Fox: property and distributive justice according to foxes and other diggers / Jacob M. Held
Willy Wonka and the imperial chocolate factory / Ron Novy
George's marvelous medicine, or: what should we do about global hunger? / Janelle Pötzsch
Crodswoggle, flushbunking, and all things friendship in the BFG / Chad Kleist
Charlie and the nightmare factory: the art of children's horror fiction / Greg Littmann
Brimful of buzzburgers: a human bean's wild possibilities / Miranda Nell
Dewey's marvelous medicine: negative capability, and the wonder of Roald Dahl / Tanya Jeffcoat.
