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!"
Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer
Buffy and Feminist Ethics
Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir
Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass
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
Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars
Between Heaven and Hells: Multidimensional Cosmology in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy Goes to College, Adam "Murder(s) to Dissect": Education and Knowledge in a Postmodern World
"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?
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
Prophecy Girl and the Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse
Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse
No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption
Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse
CODEX FIVE. You're all slaves to the television. Watching Buffy
Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
High School is Hell: Metaphor made Literal
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