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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
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Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy (2003) (edit title/settings)

Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

by James B. South (Editor), William Irwin (Series Editor) (edit contributors)

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How can Buffy's religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedon's professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faith's corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they illustrate the flaws in Nietzsche's superman concept?... read more

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First, this project could not have come about without the enthusiastic participation of the contributors.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Codex 1 - It's kind of a Slayer thing Buffy, Faith, and Feminism
1. Faith and Plato: "You're Nothing! Disgusting Murderous Bitch!"
2. Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer
3. "The I in Team": Buffy and Feminist Ethics
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir
5. Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass
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
7. Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars
8. Between Heavens and Hells: The Multidimensional Universe in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9. Buffy Goes to College, Adam Murders to Dissect: Education and Knowledge in Postmodernity
10. "My God, It's Like a Greek Tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality
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?
12. Passion and Action: In and Out of Control
13. Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox
14. A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Codex 4 - That's the kind of wolly-headed thinking that leads to being eaten Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse
15. Brownskirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon
16. Prophecy Girl and The Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse
17. Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse
18. No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption
19. Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse
Codex 5 - You're all slaves to the television Watching Buffy
20. Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
21. High School Is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
22. Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door
I have a hard enough time remember what happened last week. A guide to BtVS and Angel Episodes
Oh yeah? Let's look at your bio. About the Authors
We've got a lot of important work here: A lot of filing, giving things names. Index

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This book is in Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series. (publisher series)

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  1. James B. South (Editor)
  2. William Irwin (Series Editor)

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