Buffy Scholar/Critic | Watcher Junior Board Member

Jacob M. Held is a graduate student in Philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His research interests include nineteenth-century German philosophy, political and social philoso- phy, and Marx. He has published on natural law theory and is cur- rently writing his dissertation on Marxian ethics. He is relieved that to date his wife has yet to procure the services of a vengeance demon.

Held, Jacob. “Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2003. 227-38.