Conflict and Reconciliation between Spiritual Titanism and Mainstream Values in Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic brings together countercultural imagination, a utopian model of family life, alternative education, and the tensions that arise when radical ideals encounter modern social institutions. On the basis of the Chinese manuscript and the revised English version, this expanded paper argues that Ben and Leslie’s attempt to construct an autonomous forest community can be understood as a form of spiritual Titanism: a fearless but excessive struggle to test the limits of human perfectibi