Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy Fear

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

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

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