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Author(s): William Irwin, George A. Dunn, Rebecca Housel
ISBN(s): 9780470641019, 0470641010
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.69 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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Author:  William Irwin, George A. Dunn, Rebecca Housel

Teeming 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 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. Smart and entertaining, True Blood and Philosophy provides food–or blood–for thought, and a fun, new way to look at the series.

Table of contents: 

Acknowledgments: For the “Supes” We Just Can’t Live Without
Introduction: “If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It’s Still a Tree–Ain’t It?”

Part One: “I Used to Hate Vampires, Until I Got To Know One”: Vampire-human Ethics

  1. To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires — Christopher Robichaud

  2. Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in the Human Playground — Jennifer Culver

  3. Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood — Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn

Part Two: “Life-challenged Individuals”: The Politics of Being Dead
4. Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract — Joseph J. Foy
5. “Honey, If We Can’t Kill People, What’s the Point of Being a Vampire?”: Can Vampires Be Good Citizens? — William M. Curtis
6. Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artificiality — Bruce A. McClelland

Part Three: “Their Very Blood Is Seductive”: Eros, Sexuality, and Gender
7. Coming Out of the Coffin and Coming Out of the Closet — Patricia Brace and Robert Arp
8. “I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!”: Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence — Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell
9. Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex — Ron Hirschbein

Part Four: “I Am Actually Older Than Your Jesus”: Natural, Supernatural, and Divine
10. Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Good Times — Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn
11. Are Vampires Unnatural? — Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen
12. Does God Hate Fangs? — Adam Barkman

Part Five: “Our Existence Is Insanity”: The Metaphysics of Supernatural Beings
13. A Vampire’s Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientific Naturalism Can’t Understand — Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust
14. Keeping Secrets from Sookie — Fred Curry
15. Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More They Change, the More They Stay the Same — Sarah Grubb

Contributors: “I Don’t Know Who You Think You Are, but Before the Night Is Through…”
Index: Sookie’s Words of the Day

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