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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Extraordinary Beings
Phobias
Repulsion and Attraction
Inhuman
Unthinkable
Unmanageable
The Literal and the Symbolic
PART 1 — ANCIENT MONSTERS
1 Alexander Fights Monsters in India
Embellishing
Manliness
2 Monsters Are Nature’s Playthings
Griffins
Monstrous Bones
Natural History and Credulity
Monstrous Races
3 Hermaphrodites and Man-headed Oxen
In-between Beings
Reason and Superstition
Aristotle’s Monsters
Phantom Images
4 Monstrous Desire
Plato’s Monster
Monstrous Mother
PART 2 — MEDIEVAL MONSTERS: MESSAGES FROM GOD
5 Biblical Monsters
God’s Lackeys
The Apocalypse
Giants
6 Do Monsters Have Souls?
Monsters and a Creator God
Baptizing the Monstrous Races
The Descent of Monsters
Alexander’s Gates
7 The Monster Killer
“I Have Known Much Peril”
Tolkien’s Tragic Beowulf
8 Possessing Demons and Witches
St. Anthony Fights the Demons
Witches
The Witch Hunter
Illusion or Reality?
Monstrous Desires Revisited
Driving Out the Demons
PART 3 — SCIENTIFIC MONSTERS: THE BOOK OF NATURE IS RIDDLED WITH TYPOS
9 Natural History, Freaks, and Nondescripts
The Hydra
Eradicating the Fantastic
Responding to the Marvelous
A Mischievous Taxidermist
Freaks
10 The Medicalization of Monsters
Monstrous Births
Pregnant Women Should Not Look upon Monsters
Monsters and the Mechanization of Nature
Frankenstein
John Hunter’s Monsters
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s Teratology
William Lawrence and the Headless Children
11 Darwin’s Mutants
Monsters and Transmutation
No Monstrous Jumps in Nature
Mutationism and Hopeful Monsters
Alberch, Gould, and the Return of the Monsters
Evo-Devo
PART 4 — INNER MONSTERS: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
12 The Art of Human Vulnerability: Angst and Horror
Fear and Cognitive Mismatch
Angst and Fear
Freud
Torture Porn
Creeping Flesh
13 Criminal Monsters: Psychopathology, Aggression, and the Malignant Heart
Monsters in the Headlines
Leopold and Loeb
Rage and Aggression
Monstrous Desire Revisited
Cold Detachment
The Causes of Psychopathology
Judging and Managing the Monsters
PART V — MONSTERS TODAY AND TOMORROW
14 Torturers, Terrorists, and Zombies: The Products of Monstrous Societies
Xenophobia and Race
Theoretical Xenophobia
Instinctual Xenophobia
Monstrous Civilizations
Pathological Societies
Monsters from the Oppressed Classes
Monsters of Ideology
Deconstructing Monsters
15 Future Monsters: Robots, Mutants, and Posthuman Cyborgs
Mutants and Robots
Cyborgs
Disembodied Minds Playing God: Biotechnology
Are Monsters in the Eye of the Beholder?
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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