Buffy the vampire slayer and philosophy : fear and trembling in Sunnydale / edited by James B. South.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

South, James B., 1960-

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 4.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Television program)--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 335 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Faith and Plato : "You're nothing! Disgusting, murderous bitch!" / Greg Forster

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0812695305

0812695313

OCLC:

51481996