[Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture 15] • Twilight and Philosophy by Irwin, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE - TWILIGHT

“Sorry about the Food Analogy”—What’s Your Pleasure? “What I Knew Was Right . . . and What I Wanted” The Vampire Socrates Lambs and the Predators Who Adore Them “Other Hungers . . . That Are Foreign to Me” “A Moonless Night” NOTES

two - DYING TO EAT: THE VEGETARIAN ETHICS OF TWILIGHT

Scene 1. In Which a Reasonable Ethic Is Proposed Scene 2. In Which a Classmate Brings Up an Unpleasant Scenario Scene 3. In Which Edward Says No to the Kosher Option NOTES

three - CAN A VAMPIRE BE A PERSON?

What Is a Person (Other Than Vampire Food)? What Humans, Vampires, and Animals Have in Common If Animals Are Human Food, Are We Vampire Food? Naughty Vampire! No People for You! NOTES

four - CARLISLE: MORE COMPASSIONATE THAN A SPEEDING BULLET?

Carlisle’s Theory of “Gifts” Carlisle’s Super-Compassion Is Compassion a Feeling? Compassion of a Saint? Compassion, Caring, and the Cullen Family The Power of Connections NOTES

PART TWO - NEW MOON

five - VAMPIRE-DÄMMERUNG: WHAT CAN TWILIGHT TELL US ABOUT GOD?

Evil’s Not a Problem, Because Evil Doesn’t Exist Evil’s Not a Problem, Because Evil Indicates Ignorance Evil’s Not a Problem, Because It’s the Necessary Cost of Good Evil, Transcendence, and Natural Goodness NOTES

six - TO BITE OR NOT TO BITE: TWILIGHT, IMMORTALITY, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

More Love and Death On Losing One’s Soul I’m Bored . . . It’s Complicated NOTES

seven - MIND READING AND MORALITY: THE MORAL HAZARDS OF BEING EDWARD

Does Power Corrupt or Reveal Moral Character? Benevolence and Mind Reading Privacy and Mind Reading Love and the Inequality of Mind Reading God and Morality One Last Thought before Dawn NOTES

eight - LOVE AND AUTHORITY AMONG WOLVES

What’s Free Will, Anyway? The Wolves, Free Will, and Authority Wolf Love and Free Will A Final Worry Here Jacob Stands: He Can Do No Other NOTES

PART THREE - ECLIPSE

nine - BELLA SWAN AND SARAH PALIN: ALL THE OLD MYTHS ARE NOT TRUE

Having It All All of the Myths Are True Consider Sarah Palin A Lesson for Serious Feminists Who Are the Real Elitists? A Lesson for Feminists Having It All in Real Life NOTES

ten - VAMPIRE LOVE: THE SECOND SEX NEGOTIATES THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Back in Time The Second Sex in the Twenty-first Century A Feminist Subtext The Price of Existence NOTES

eleven - EDWARD CULLEN AND BELLA SWAN: BYRONIC AND FEMINIST HEROES . . . OR NOT

twelve - UNDEAD PATRIARCHY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE

The Control Issues of Edward Cullen Bella’s Mixed Reactions Edward’s Progress Talked into Love Risk and Transformation NOTES

thirteen - THE “REAL” DANGER: FACT VS. FICTION FOR THE GIRL AUDIENCE

Just the Facts, Ma’am Bella and “Generation Me” Twilight in the Desert of the Real New Moon Rising? NOTES

PART FOUR - BREAKING DAWN

fourteen - TWILIGHT OF AN IDOL: OUR FATAL ATTRACTION TO VAMPIRES

An Undying Wish Deadly Transformations Unbreakable Bloody Special Lone Wolves Tortuous Thirsts The Not-So-Guilty Pleasures of Twilight Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Grave Concerns about Vegetarian Vampires NOTES

fifteen - BELLA’S VAMPIRE SEMIOTICS

The Signs around Tyler’s Blue Van The Philosopher of Oneness, Twoness, Threeness The Sign of the Cross The Signs of a Good Vampire Vampire Semiotics Are No Guarantee . . . The Semiotic Waltz: One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three NOTES

sixteen - SPACE, TIME, AND VAMPIRE ONTOLOGY

Kantian Space and Time Kant, Dracula, and Twilight’s Vampires Abilities beyond Space and Time: Alice, Edward, and Aro When Worlds Collide NOTES

seventeen - FOR THE STRENGTH OF BELLA? MEYER, VAMPIRES, AND MORMONISM

What’s Religion Got to Do with It? Meyer’s Religion and Its Philosophical Context Eternal Covenants, Binding Promises Eternal Union in Body and Spirit Close but Not Too Close: The Erotics of Abstinence Returning the Gaze Nice Mormon Girls and Sexy Vampires NOTES

eighteen - THE TAO OF JACOB

It’s Always Darkest before the Dawn No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bend So That You Don’t Break The Dawning of a New Era NOTES

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