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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy

Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

VOLUME 4 IN THE OPEN COURT SERIES,

POPULAR CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY

“In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the Forces of Darkness. She is the Slayer . . .”

So. If you’re kind of killing time between apocalypses or just wondering about that meaning of life thing, here’s some readage. . . . Look, these guys’ll I-think-therefore-I-am you into the freakin’ ground. And the happy is better than shoe shopping. What? If I don’t consult the oracle I’ll, like, turn to stone? Well, yeah, if not already.

“a thought-provoking philosophical intervention into the cleverest show on television.”

       NORAH MARTIN

          Co-author of Externalism and Self-Knowledge

“Its erudite yet accessible chapters illuminate the work of philosophers from Plato to Kant to Feyerabend, all of whom benefit from emigrating to Sunnydale.”

       DAVID LAVERY

          Editor of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies

“These doctors of philosophy x-ray the intellectual bones of Buffy. . . . reflects the deeply ethical nature of the Buffyverse.”

       RHONDA V. WILCOX

          Co-editor of Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer


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