Clint Jones
Instructor
Department
- Religion and Philosophy
Contact Information
- 614-236-6805
- cjones354@capital.edu
- Convergent Media Center 216
Biography
Dr. Jones teaches introductory courses in ethics, logic, and the history of philosophy, intermediate courses in social and critical theory including classes on race, feminism, queer theory, environmental philosophy, pop culture, and aesthetics, as well as advanced courses in metaphysics, epistemology, existentialism, social justice, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, and utopianism. He has published on philosophical issues in pop culture including film, television, literature, and comic books. He has also published on subjects including piracy, folk tales, contemporary American mythologies, and religious issues. Currently his research examines the possibility of a queer reading of Jesus, philosophical issues involving contemporary practices of witchcraft, and environmental issues in philosophy. Dr. Jones is an active member of several professional organizations and currently serves as the Director of Debate at Capital University.
- Introduction to Ethics
- Logic
- Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
- Philosophy and Environment
- Philosophy of Race
- Feminism and Queer Theory
- Contemporary Problems in Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Special Topics: Philosophy and Terrorism
- Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2013
- M.A., Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2009
- B.A., Philosophy, Transylvania University, 2005
- B.A., History, Transylvania University, 2005
Books
Terrorism in Youth Popular Culture: Teaching the Next Generation from the Cold War to the Present, eds. Clint Jones and Martin Claar, Lexington Books, 2025.
Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture, ed. Clint Jones, Lexington Books, 2023.
Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment After Societal Collapse, McFarland Press, 2020.
Stranger, Creature, Thing, Other: Monstrous Reflections on Our Ecostential Crisis, Cornerstone Press, 2019.
Ecological Reflections on Post-Capitalist Society, Cornerstone Press, 2018.
A Genealogy of Social Violence: Founding Murder, Mimetic Justice, and the Future of the Family, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.
Chapters and Articles
“Joel’s Choice: Apocalyptic Fantasies, Dystopian Hope, and the Post-Human Question,” The Last of Us and Philosophy, ed. C. Joshua Horn, Wiley-Blackwell (2025): 3-9.
“Battleground Gotham: Joker’s War on Capitalism,” Joker and Philosophy, eds. Massimiliano L. Cappuccia, George A. Dunn, Jason T. Eberl, Wiley-Blackwell (2025): 148-156.
“Killing in the Name of the Father: Freud and Rene Girard on the Question of Desire,” Sigmund Freud as a Critical Social Theorist: Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic in Contemporary Society, eds. Dustin Byrd & Seyed Javad Miri, Brill (2025): 364-381.
“Absence, Violence, and Desire: Derrida, Girard, and Bluebeard’s Justice,” The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World: An Ocean of Stories, ed. Wendy Turgeon, Palgrave MacMillan (2024): 113-126.
“Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse,” The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, ed. David Kyle Johnson (2023): online.
“False Messiah and Real Devils: Batman and Girard on the Fate of Gotham,” Theology and Batman, ed. Matthew William Brake & Rev. C. K. Robertson, Lexington Books (2023): 179-193.
“The Walking Dead as Philosophy: Rick Grimes and Community Building in an Apocalypse,” The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, ed. David Kyle Johnson (2021): online.
“The Enduring Myth of the American Cowboy: 21st Century Transformations of the Western Ideal in Longmire,” Journal of the West vol. 58 no. 1 (Winter 2019): 11-28.
“Re-Conceiving the Concept of Stewardship: Coal Production and the Importance of a New Christian Context for Appalachia” co-author Rev. Dr. Marshall Jolly, Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol. 21 no. 1 (Spring 2015): 33-48.
“The Misadventures of Enrique Chagoya: Aesthetic Marginalization in LGBTQ Interpretations of Jesus” Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideology vol. 12 issue 35 (Summer 2013): 3-25.