Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

by South, James B.; Irwin, William

• ISBN13: 9780812695311
• ISBN10: 0812695313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-13
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

Uses philosophical concepts in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, andolitical philosophy to analyze the television series "Buffy the Vampirelayer.".

Table of Contents

What a lot of fun-you guys have been real swell. Acknowledgments	ix
And was there a lesson in all this? Introduction	1	(4)
Codex 1 It's kind of a Slayer thing
Buffy, Faith, and Feminism	5	(2)
Faith And Plato: ``You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch!''	7	(13)
Greg Forster
Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer	20	(15)
Karl Schudt
``The I in Team'': Buffy and Feminist Ethics	35	(14)
Jessica Prata Miller
Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir	49	(12)
Thomas Hibbs
Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass	61	(18)
Mimi Marinucci
Codex 2 Don't speak Latin in front of the books
Knowledge, Rationality, and Science in the Buffyverse	77	(2)
Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond	79	(12)
Andrew Aberdein
Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars	91	(12)
Madeline M. Muntersbjorn
Between Heavens and Hells: The Multidimensional Universe in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer	103	(14)
James Lawler
Buffy Goes to College, Adam Murders to Dissect: Education and Knowledge in Postmodernity	117	(14)
Toby Daspit
``My God, It's Like a Greek Tragedy'': Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality	131	(18)
James B. South
Codex 3 You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you?
Buffy and Ethics	147	(2)
Should We Do What Buffy Would Do?	149	(11)
Jason Kawal
Passion and Action: In and Out of Control	160	(13)
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox	173	(12)
Melissa M. Milavec
Sharon M. Kaye
A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer	185	(12)
Scott R. Stroud
Codex 4 That's the kind of of wooly-headed thinking that leads to being eaten
Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse	195	(2)
Brownskirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon	197	(15)
Neal King
Prophecy Girl and The Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse	212	(15)
Wendy Love Anderson
Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse	227	(12)
Jacob M. Held
No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption	239	(15)
Gregory J. Sakal
Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse	254	(17)
Jeffrey L. Pasley
Codex 5 You're all slaves to the television
Watching Buffy	269	(2)
Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer	271	(11)
Richard Greene
Wayne Yuen
High School Is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer	282	(12)
Tracy Little
Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door	294	(15)
Michael P. Levine
Steven Jay Schneider
I have a hard enough time remembering what happened last week. A Guide to BtVS and Angel Episodes	309	(8)
Oh, yeah? Let's look at your bio. About the Authors	317	(6)
We've got a lot of important work here: a lot of filing, giving things names. Index	323