True Blood and Philosophy We Wanna Think Bad

The first look at the philosophical issues behind Charlaine Harris's New York Times bestsellers The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the True Blood television seriesTeeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape of vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and the like, True Blood, the popular HBO series adapted from Charlaine Harris's bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a rich collection of themes to explore, from sex and romance to bigotry and violence to death and immortality. The goings-on in the mythical town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, where vampires satiate their blood lust and openly commingle with ordinary humans, present no shortages of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your teeth into.Now True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of some of history's great thinkers to perform some philosophical bloodletting on such topics as Sookie and the metaphysics of mindreading; Maryann and sacrificial religion; werewolves, shapeshifters and personal identity; vampire politics, evil, desire, and much more. The first book to explore the philosophical issues and themes behind the True Blood novels and television series Adds a new dimension to your understanding of True Blood characters and themes The perfect companion to the start of the third season on HBO and the release of the second season on DVDSmart and entertaining, True Blood and Philosophy provides food-or blood-for thought, and a fun, new way to look at the series.

George A. Dunn is a lecturer at the University of Indianapolis and Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China. He contributed to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy. X-Men and Philosophy, Terminator and Philosophy, Twilight and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Iron Man and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.
Rebecca Housel, a former professor of writing and popular culture, is now an author and editor serving on editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture. She coedited Twilight and Philosophy and X-Men and Philosophy.
William Irwin is a professor of philosophy at King's College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy.

Acknowledgments: For the "Super" We Just Can't Live Without	p. ix
Introduction: "If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It's Still a Tree-Ain't It?"	p. 1
"I Used to Hate Vampires, Until I Got to Know One": Vampire-Human Ethics
To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires	p. 7
Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in the Human Playground	p. 19
Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood	p. 33
"Life-Challenged Individuals": The Politics of Being Dead
Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract	p. 51
"Honey, If We Can't Kill People, What's the Point of Being a Vampire?": Can Vampires Be Good Citizens?	p. 65
Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artificiality	p. 79
"Their Very Blood is Seductive": Eros, Sexuality, and Gender
Coming Out of the Coffin and Coming Out of the Closet	p. 93
"I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!": Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence	p. 109
Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex	p. 123
"I Am Actually Older than Your Jesus": Natural, Supernatural, and Divine
Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Good Times	p. 139
Are Vampires Unnatural?	p. 157
Does God Hate Fangs?	p. 175
"Our Existence is Insanity": The Metaphysics of Supernatural Beings
A Vampire's Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientific Naturalism Can't Understand	p. 187
Keeping Secrets from Sookie	p. 203
Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More They Change, the More They Stay the Same	p. 215
Contributors: "I Don't Know Who You Think You Are, but Before the Night Is Through . . ."	p. 229
Index: Sookie's Words of the Day	p. 237
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