Research Catalog

Title

The Walking dead and philosophy : zombie apocalypse now / edited by Wayne Yuen.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Yuen, Wayne, 1978-

Description

xv, 262 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Walking Dead" is both a hugely successful comics series and a popular TV show. This epic story of a zombie apocalypse is unique. It focuses on the long-term individual, social, and moral consequences of survival by small groups of humans in a world overrun by infected zombies. Guns, chainsaws, and machetes are not enough for survival: humans also need agreement on rules of conduct. Can equality or fairness have any polace in the post-apocalyptic world? Do theft or even assault and murder become okay under desperate circumstances? Who should be recognized as having political authority? What about eating human flesh? Should survivors have children?

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 68

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 68.

Subject

• Graphic novels > United States
• Kirkman, Robert
• Walking dead (Television program)
• Zombies in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Spoilers warning -- Philosophy for the dead / Wayne Yuen -- Are you just braaaiiinnnsss or something more? / Gordon Hawkes -- Can you survive a walker bite? / Greg Littmann -- What your zombie knows / Richard Greene -- Walking contradictions / Robert Delfino and Kyle Taylor -- I'm gonna tell them about Wayne / Marty McKendry and Michael Da Silva -- A stagger-on role to die for / Dave Beisecker -- What's yours still isn't mine / Jason Walker -- Women in a zombie apocalypse / Ashley Barkman -- Dead man's party / Danee Pye and Peter O'Sullivan -- Better off undead / Rachel Robison-Greene -- Realistically, nice guys finish last / Si Sheppard -- The optimism of The walking dead / Brandon Kempner -- The horror of humanity / Julia Round -- Monsters of modernity / Stephen Brett Greeley -- People for the ethical treatment of zombies (PETZ) / Jeffrey A. Hinzmann and Robert Arp -- The only good walker is a dead walker / Franklin Allaire -- I don't think those rules apply anymore / Adam Barkman -- Dead ends / Elizabeth Rard -- Babes in zombie land / Tauriq Moosa -- What's eating you? / Wayne Yuen -- We are the walking dead! -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780812697674 (trade paper : alk. paper)
• 0812697677 (trade paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012009582

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library