Research Catalog

Title

• Zombies, vampires, and philosophy : new life for the undead / edited by Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Greene, Richard, 1961 September 2-
• Mohammad, K. Silem

Description

xii, 303 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

• Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 49

Uniform Title

• Popular culture and philosophy v. 49.
• Undead and philosophy.

Subject

• Philosophie
• Philosophy
• Vampir
• Vampires
• Zombie
• Zombies

Note

• Rev. ed of v. 22: The undead and philosophy.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. It's alive (sort of) -- 1. The badness of undeath / Richard Greene -- 2. Res corporealis: persons, bodies, and zombies / William S. Larkin -- 3. "She's not your mother anymore, she's a zombie!": zombies, value, and personal identity / Hamish Thompson -- 4. Dead serious: evil and the ontology of the undead / Manuel Vargas -- 5. Zombies, 'Blade runner,' and the mind-body problem / Larry Hauser -- Part II. Undead white males -- 6. Heidegger the vampire slayer: the undead and fundamental ontology / Adam Barrows -- 7. When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will shop the Earth: Romero and Aristotle on zombies, happiness, and consumption / Matthew Walker -- 8. Zombies, rest and motion: Spinoza and the speed of undeath / K. Silem Mohammad -- Part III. Dirty rotting scoundrels -- 9. Zombie gladiators / Dale Jacquette -- 10. Should vampires be held accountable for their bloodthirsty behavior? / John Draeger -- 11. The bloody connection between vampires and vegetarians / Wayne Yuen -- 12. Damned if you do, damned if you don't: vampires and the hedonistic paradox / Robert Arp -- 13. Deserving to be a vampire: the ethical and existential elements of vampirism / Ted M. Preston -- Part IV. Digging up the body politic -- 14. The political economy of non-coercive vampire lifestyles / Douglas Glen Whitman -- 15. Rousseau and the vampires: toward a political philosophy of the undead / Phillip Cole -- 16. The undead martyr: sex, death, and revolution in George Romero's zombie films / Simon Clark -- 17. When they aren't eating us, they bring us together: zombies and the American social contract / Leah A. Murray -- Part V. Leaving a good-looking corpse -- 18. The fear of fear itself: the philosophy of Halloween / Noël Carroll -- 19. "Powerful, beautiful, and without regret": femininity, masculinity, and the vampire aesthetic / Joan Grassbaugh Forry -- True and untrue blood / Rachel Robison -- 21. The twilight of infinite desire / Randall E. Auxier and Eileen Townsend.

ISBN

• 9780812696837 (trade paper : alk. paper)
• 0812696832 (trade paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010001965

OCLC

436620279

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library