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Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Know Thyself?
BODY PART I - Maiming and Necessity
Chapter 1 - The Killing Joke
What Is a Superhero?
Deeds Not Words
Origin Stories: The Orphan Makes Good
The Superhero Syndrome
The Only Truly Decent Man Left on the Planet
Chapter 2 - Dexter’s Pointy Ears
Dexter’s Loss Is Our Gain
The Spock Problem
The Dexter Problem
As Goes Dexter, So Go We?
The Good Life and The Dexter-like Life
Chapter 3 - Dearly Damaged Dexter
You’re a Killer, I Catch Killers
I’ve Always Sensed There Was Something Off about Him
A Little Bird with a Broken Wing
You Can’t Help What Happened to You. But You Can Make the Best of It
Chapter 4 - Can We Blame a Man with No Choice?
How Much Control Does Dexter Have Over the Butcher’s Knife?
Does Inevitability Absolve Us?
Judge Frankfurt Rules Dexter Guilty
Any Way You Slice It
Almost Caught!
Chapter 5 - What Dexter Doesn’t Know Can Hurt You
Reasonable Doubts
Bodies of Evidence
Hey Dex, Is Your Spidey-Sense Tingling Yet?
More than a Feeling?
Chapter 6 - Dexter the Self-Interpreting Animal
Dexter’s Inescapable Framework
Has Dexter Overcome Humanity?
The Need for Recognition
A Story in Search of a Narrator
Chapter 7 - Is Dexter Morgan Practically Perfect in Every Way?
Groomin’ Lumen
Corrupting the Youth of Miami
The Homicidal Imperative?
Kickin’ It New School
I’ve Got No Strings . . .
BODY PART II - The Cut of Dexter’s Jib
Chapter 8 - Dexter’s Mirror
The Seduction of Blood
The Void, Dread, and Murder
Dexter’s Ritual Transcendence of Death
All for Love
Chapter 9 - A Very Special Kind of Monster
Corpses and Nothingness
Violence and the Return of the Abject
Taking Out the (Six) Garbage (Bags)
Kicking the Dark Passenger
Rule Number One
Chapter 10 - The Sublime Dexter
The Power of the Sublime
The Passions Aroused by the Sublime
Look for Something Bludgeony
Dexter’s Aesthetics
Chapter 11 - Dexter’s Specimens
Try Our New Dahmerland Section at Specimens ‘R’ Us
Counting Specimen Slides
Dexter, Specimen Maker
Buddy’s Bones
Born Free of All That’s Human
Pulled Pork Sandwiches and the Sexual Politics of Meat
You Kidnapped a Cop This Time, You Know? Not Some Invisible Hooker
Designing Women in Dexter
Homosocially Yours, Dexter
Specimen Watching
BODY PART III - What Would Dexter Do?
Chapter 12 - Pathetic Rule Follower or Vigilante Hero?
What Is a Moral Code?
Weird but Likeable Psychopath?
Emotions, and Rules, and Morality (Oh My!)
Good? Evil? Icky? Sticky?
Vigilante Hero?
Chapter 13 - Deontology in Dahmerland
Why Might Dexter Be Amoral?
The Three Moral Theories
Dexter’s Deadly Virtues
The Dark Defender and the Needs of the Many
Dexter’s Dark Deontology
You Control Your Urges—They Do Not Control You
Chapter 14 - Best of Luck, Dexter!
Picking Up the Dark Passenger
Better You than Me, Dex!
Teaching the Code of Harry
. . . And No More Fucking Remorse
Where the Bodies Lie
Chapter 15 - Why Kill or Not Kill? That Is the Question
The Mind Thinking about Its Sense of Duty
Dexter Doing His Duty Dutifully?
The Mind Serves the Heart
Harry’s House
Dexter Is a Needy Ned
De-Deontologizing Dexter
BODY PART IV - Bad Blood and Bad Behavior
Chapter 16 - The Discipline of Dexter’s Punishment
The Wimpiness of Modern Punishment
Following Harry’s Code
You Can’t Always Kill Whom You Want
One Minute, You’re on Top of the World, the Next, Dexter’s Table
Dexter Is the Sovereign We’ve Been Waiting For
The Final Thrust to the Abdomen
Chapter 17 - Dexter the Busy Bee
Killing Killers, Saving Lives
The Thrill of the Kill
Bad Motives, Good Actions
Enter the Man-Devil
A Poem that Will Live in Infamy
A Second Look at Dexter’s Motives
Chapter 18 - You Hurt Her, You Hurt Me
Why Does Dexter Need a Family if Blood Is His Life?
Dexter’s Awkward Sexual Advances
Sex, Power, and Knowing Thyself
Morgan or Moser?
Chapter 19 - Dexter’s Whiteness
The Problem of Whiteness
The Invisible Killer
Murder and the Mise-en-Scène of Whiteness
Death, Sex, and Dexter
Chapter 20 - Happiness, Dexter Style
One Code to Kill Them All
Dexter: The Family Man?
Beyond the Code, Beyond the Lies
Can a Serial Killer Be Happy?
BODY PART V - Dexter’s Bloodline
Chapter 21 - Dexter Unmasked
Everyday Masks
Nietzsche’s Masks
Dark Passengers
True Blood
Deeply Dissecting Dexter
Chapter 22 - Neither Man nor Beast
Being Bad Feels So Good
The Self-Controlled Person
The Morally Strong Person
The Morally Weak Person
The Self-Indulgent Person
The Beast and the Saint
Locating Dexter on the Scale
Fine, I’m a Sociopath, but Do I Have to Feel Bad About it?
But Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Becoming a Real Boy
Chapter 23 - Dexter SPQR
Nietzsche’s Bay Harbor Beast
Conscience and Guilt
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
The Ethics of Dexter’s Appeal
Chapter 24 - Dexter’s Look
Bad Faith
Dexter as Master
Caught in the Act
Look at What You’ve Done!
Bad or Bad Faith?
Chapter 25 - Safe Dex
Dexter the Just Man
Rooting for a Killer
Our Killers, Right or Wrong
The Retribution of Raffles
Enter the Bulldog
Enter the Saint
Decline of the Vigilante Novel
Dexter, Hero of Our Time
The Perps
Index
Copyright Page
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