Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

Ed. James B. South, Marquette University

 

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Acknowledgements

 

And was there a lesson in all this?

Introduction

 

 

 

 


CODEX ONE. It's kind of a slayer thing. Buffy, Faith, and Feminism

 

Faith And Plato: "You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch!"

Greg Forster

 

Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer

Karl Schudt

 

Buffy and Feminist Ethics

Jessica Prata Miller

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir

Thomas Hibbs

 

Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass

Mimi Marinucci

 


CODEX TWO. Don't speak Latin in front of the books. Knowledge, Rationality, and Science in the Buffyverse

 

Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Andrew Aberdein

 

Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars

Madeline M. Muntersbjorn

 

Between Heaven and Hells: Multidimensional Cosmology in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

James Lawler

 

Buffy Goes to College, Adam "Murder(s) to Dissect": Education and Knowledge in a Postmodern World

Toby Daspit

 

"My God, it's like a Greek tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality

James B. South

 


CODEX THREE. You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you? Buffy and Ethics

Should We Do What Buffy Would Do?

Jason Kawal

 

Passion and Action--In and Out of Control

Carolyn Korsmeyer

 

Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox

Sharon Kaye and Melissa Milavec

 

A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Scott R. Stroud

 


CODEX FOUR. That's the kind of wooly-headed thinking that leads to being eaten. Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse

 

Brown Skirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon

Neal King

 

Prophecy Girl and the Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse

Wendy Love Anderson

 

Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse

Jacob Held

 

No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption

Gregory J. Sakal

 

Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse

Jeffrey L. Pasley

 


CODEX FIVE. You're all slaves to the television. Watching Buffy

 

Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen

 

High School is Hell: Metaphor made Literal

Tracy Little

 

Feeling for Buffy--The Girl Next Door

Michael Levine & Steven Jay Schneider

 

I have a hard enough time remembering what happened last week. An Episode Guide

Oh, yeah? Let's look at your bio. The Scooby Gang

We've got a lot of important work here: a lot of filing, giving things names. An Index

 

Last Updated: February 24, 2003