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The undead and philosophy : chicken soup for the soulless
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The undead and philosophy : chicken soup for the soulless

Author: Richard Greene; K Silem Mohammad
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court, ©2006.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy, v. 22.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"A collection of philosophical essays about the undead: beings such as vampires and zombies who are physically or mentally dead yet not at rest. Topics addressed include the metaphysics and ethics of undeath"--Provided by publisher.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Greene; K Silem Mohammad
ISBN: 0812696018 9780812696011
OCLC Number: 70258815
Description: xvi, 261 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The badness of undeath / Richard Greene --
Res corporealis, persons, bodies, and zombies / William S. Larkin --
"She's not your mother anymore, she's a zombie!": zombies, value, and personal identity / Hamish Thompson --
Dead serious: evil and the ontology of the undead / Manuel Vargas --
Zombies, Bladder runner, and the mind-body problem / Larry Hauser --
Heidegger the vampire slayer: the undead and fundamental ontology / Adam Barrows --
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will shop the earth: Romero and Aristotle on zombies, happiness, and consumption / Matthew Walker --
Zombies, rest and motion: Spinoza and the speed of undeath / K. Silem Mohammad --
Zombie gladiators / Dale Jacquette --
Should Vampires be held accountable for their blood thirsty behavior? / John Draeger --
The bloody connection between vampires and vegetarians / Wayne Yuen --
Damned if you do, damned if you don't: vampires and the hedonistic paradox / Robert Arp --
Deserving to be a vampire: the ethical and existential elements of vampirism / Ted M. Preston --
The political economy of non-coervcive vampire lifestyles / Douglas Glen Whitman --
Rousseau and the vampires: toward a political philosophy of the undead / Phillip Cole --
The undead Martyr: sex, death, and revolution in George Romero's zombie films / Simon Clark --
When they aren't eating us, They bring us together: zombies and the American social contract / Leah A. Murray --
The fear of fear itself: the philosophy of Halloween / Noël Carroll --
"Powerful, beautiful, and without regret": femininity, masculinity, and the vampire aesthetic / Joan Grassbaugh Forry.
Series Title: Popular culture and philosophy, v. 22.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad.
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