Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy : Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale.
Title:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy : Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale.
Author:
South, James B.
ISBN:
9780812697476
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- What a lot of fun-you guys have been real swell -- And was there a lesson in all this? -- Codex 1: It's kind of a Slayer thing. Buffy, Faith,and Feminism -- 1. Faith and Plato:"You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch!" -GREG FORSTER -- 2. Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer -KARL SCHUDT -- 3. "The I in Team": Buffy and Feminist Ethics -JESSICA PRATA MILLER -- 4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir -THOMAS HIBBS -- 5. Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass -MIMI MARINUCCI -- Codex 2: Don't speak Latin in front of the books: Knowledge, Rationality, and Science in the Buffyverse -- 6. Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond -ANDREW ABERDEIN -- 7. Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars -MADELINE MUNTERSBJORN -- 8. Between Heavens and Hells: The Multidimensional Universe in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer -JAMES LAWLER -- 9. Buffy Goes to College, Adam Murders to Dissect: Education and Knowledge in Postmodernity -TOBY DASPIT -- 10. "My God, It's Like a Greek Tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality -JAMES B. SOUTH -- Codex 3: You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you? Buffy and Ethics -- 11. Should We Do What Buffy Would Do? -JASON KAWAL -- 12. Passion and Action: In and Out of Control -CAROLYN KORSMEYER -- 13. Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox -MELISSA M. MILAVEC and SHARON M. KAYE -- 14. A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -SCOTT R. STROUD -- Codex 4: That's the kind ofwooly-headed thinking that lead sto being eaten Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse -- 15. Brownskirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon -NEAL KING -- 16. Prophecy Girl and The Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religionin the Buffyverse -WENDY LOVE ANDERSON.
17. Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse -JACOB M. HELD -- 18. No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption -GREGORY J. SAKAL -- 19. Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse -JEFFREY L. PASLEY -- Codex 5: You're all slaves to the television -Watching Buffy -- 20. Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -RICHARD GREENE and WAYNE YUEN -- 21. High School Is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -TRACY LITTLE -- 22. Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door -MICHAEL P. LEVINE and STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER -- I have a hard enought ime remembering what happened last week -- Oh yeah? Let's look at your bio -- We've got a lot of important work here, a lot of filing, giving things names.
Abstract:
"In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the Forces of Darknes. She is the Slayer . . ." So, if you're kind of killing time between apocalypses or just wondering about that meaning of life thing, here's some readage . . . Look, these guys'll I-think-therefore-I-am you into the freakin' ground. And the happy is better than shoe shopping. What? If I don't consult the oracle I'll, like, turn to stone? Well, yeah, if not already. This is a fascinating collection of 21 philosophical essays on Buffy and the Buffyverse.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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