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

Edited by

James B. South
(Marquette University)

Published by Open Court Books



Table of Contents

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