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This lively collection of essays links classical philosophy to the hit television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"--a show that explores the evil underlying everyday life, making it ripe for the kind of witty, penetrating philosophical analysis this book delivers.
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How can Buffys religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedons professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faiths corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they illustrate the flaws in Nietzsches superman concept? What does the shows treatment of vampires, demons, and other entities say about ethical attitudes toward nonhumans? These are some of the questions asked and answered in this lively collection of essays that link classical philosophy to the long-running series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffys status as the leading vehicle for exploring the evil underlying everyday life has made it ripe for the kind of witty, penetrating philosophical analysis this book delivers — fully disintering the intellectual issues that underlie this cult favorite.
Also sprach Faith : the problem of the happy rogue vampire slayer /Karl Schudt --"The I in team" : Buffy and feminist ethics /Jessica Prata Miller
Buffy the vampire slayer as feminist noir /Thomas Hibbs
Feminism and the ethics of violence : why Buffy kicks ass /Mimi Marinucci
Balderdash and chicanery : science and beyond /Andrew Aberdein
Pluralism, pragmatism, and pals : the slayer subverts the science wars /Madeline M. Muntersbjorn
Between heaven and hells : the multidimensional universe in Kant and Buffy the vampire slayer /James Lawler
Buffy goes to college, Adam murders to dissect : education and knowledge in a postmodern world /Toby Daspit --"My God, it's like a Greek tragedy" : Willow Rosenberg and human irrationality /James B. South
Should we do what Buffy would do? /Jason Kawal
Passion and action : in and out of control /Carolyn Korsmeyer
Buffy in the buff : a slayer's solution to Aristotle's love paradox /Melissa M. Milavec and Sharon M. Kaye
A Kantian analysis of moral judgment in Buffy the vampire slayer /Scott R. Stroud
Brownskirts : fascism, Christianity, and the eternal demon /Neal King
Prophecy girl and the powers that be : the philosophy of religion in the Buffyverse /Wendy Love Anderson
Justifying the means : punishment in the Buffyverse /Jacob M. Held
No big win : themes of sacrifice, salvation, and redemption /Gregory J. Sakal
Old familiar vampires : the politics of the Buffyverse /Jeffrey L. Pasley
Morality on television : the case of Buffy the vampire slayer /Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen
High school is hell : metaphor made literal in Buffy the vampire slayer /Tracy Little
Feeling for Buffy : the girl next door /Michael Levine and Steven Jay Schneider.
Popular Culture and Philosophy #4: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale
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How can Buffys religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedons professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faiths corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they illustrate the flaws in Nietzsches superman concept? What does the shows treatment of vampires, demons, and other entities say about ethical attitudes toward nonhumans? These are some of the questions asked and answered in this lively collection of essays that link classical philosophy to the long-running series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffys status as the leading vehicle for exploring the evil underlying everyday life has made it ripe for the kind of witty, penetrating philosophical analysis this book delivers — fully disintering the intellectual issues that underlie this cult favorite.
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