Frankenstein and Philosophy : The Shocking Truth.
Title:
Frankenstein and Philosophy : The Shocking Truth.
Author:
Michaud, Nicolas.
ISBN:
9780812698428
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (219 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Table of Contents -- That Vital Spark of Life -- I. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S EASY GUIDE TO ETERNAL LIFE -- 1. Wanna Live Forever? Don't Pull a Frankenstein! -- 2. Victor Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Embracing the Corpse People -- 4. So, You Want to Be a Mad Scientist -- II. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S TREATMENT NOTES -- 5. That Frightening Frankenmetaphor -- 6. Frankenstein's Failure -- 7. Frankenstein and Zarathustra - Godless Men -- 8. Capitalism the Monster -- III. I MADE A MONSTER! NOW WHAT? -- 9. Is the Monster Free? -- 10. How to Raise a Monster -- 11. When Creations Go Bad -- 12. Who's to Blame? -- IV. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER IDENTIFICATION FIELD GUIDE -- 13. Sure It's Aliiiive, but Does It Have a Sooooul? -- 14. Who Is Frankenstein's Monster? -- 15. I'm the Person, You're the Monster -- 16. What Love Means to a Creature -- 17. Getting Inside the Monster's Head -- 18. Come Back Dr. Frankenstein, All Is Forgiven -- V. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER ASSEMBLY KIT -- 19. And We Thought He Was the Monster -- 20. Adopting Frankenstein's Creature -- 21. Why Science Is Horrific -- 22. The Human and the Monstrous -- 23. The Monster that Therefore I Am -- VI. YOU CAN LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES -- 24. If We Could All Be Dr. Frankensteins. . . -- 25. Why It's Wrong to Make Monsters - or Babies -- 26. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Monsters -- 27. Good and Ugly -- The Mad Creators -- Bits and Pieces.
Abstract:
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus sparked into life a fascination with science-gone-awry that refuses to die. From 1818 to present-day Hollywood, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired (some would say) the very idea of modern science fiction and countless essays, movies, novels, songs, comic-books, and TV shows aiming to capture what was right, wrong, abominable, inevitable, scary, or funny in this classic tale. Can organic life be reanimated using electricity or genetic manipulation? If so, could Frankenstein's monster really teach itself to read and speak as Mary Shelley imagined? Do monsters have rights, or responsibilities to those who would as soon kill them? What is it about music that so affects Frankenstein's monster, or any of us? What does Mel Brook's Frau Blucher say to contemporary eco-feminism? Why are some Frankenstein's flops and others historic successes? Is there a true Frankenstein? Why are children, but not adults, drawn to Shelley's monster? And what is a monster," anyways? Frankenstein and Philosophy brings 25 philosophers to stitch together these and other questions as they apply the history of philosophy to history's greatest horror franchise. Some chapters treat the Frankenstein films, others the original novel, and yet others the many comic books, novels, and modern adaptations. Together they pay tribute to perhaps the most enduring pop culture icon and the fundamental fears, hopes, questions, and puzzles it raises.
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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