[Popular Culture and Philosophy 49] • Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy by Greene, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page A New Lease of Life for the Undead PART I - It’s Alive (Sort Of)

1 - The Badness of Undeath

Some Haunted Housekeeping Deprivation and Desire-Frustration Human Beings, Vampires, Zombies, Pigs, and Fools Evil, All Too Evil Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It

2 - Res Corporealis: Persons, Bodies, and Zombies

Persons Bodies Zombies: The Terror Zombies: The Tragedy “They’re Just Dead Flesh” “This Was an Important Place in Their Lives” Dead People

3 - “She’s Not Your Mother Anymore, She’s a Zombie!”: Zombies, Value, and ...

The Value of a Zombie The Philosophical Challenge of Zombies Dead or Alive? Self as Fiction “Not Your Mother!” Zombies and Us

4 - Dead Serious: Evil and the Ontology of the Undead

Some Puzzles about Undeath Conceptual Truths about the Undead Kinds of Undead A Touch of Evil Evil and the Undead Resting in Peace

5 - Zombies, Blade Runner, and the Mind-Body Problem

Zombies and Replicants And Bears! Oh No: Zombies Invade Philosophy Zombies Ate My Brain! Plan B from Inner Space: Revenge of the Zombies How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zomb Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

PART II - Undead White Males

6 - Heidegger the Vampire Slayer: The Undead and Fundamental Ontology

Sympathy for the Vampire The Philosophy of Death Dracula as Inauthentic Being Heil Heidegger? Dracula’s Willing Executioners

7 - When There’s No More Room in Hell, the Dead Will Shop the Earth: Romero and ...

“Let’s Go Shopping First!”: We Are the Zombies “I Don’t Want to Be Walking Around Like That!”: Living versus Living Well “Attention All Shoppers: If You Have a Sweet Tooth, We Have a Treat for You!”: ... “Hey, Let’s Get the Stuff We Need!”: Putting the Mall in Its Place

8 - Zombies, Rest, and Motion: Spinoza and the Speed of Undeath

Slow Zombies (De)composing Bodies Fast Zombies

PART III - Dirty Rotting Scoundrels

9 - Zombie Gladiators

On the Prowl Philosophical Zombies Automata Among Us A Plea for Zombie Gladiators Amorality of Zombies and Moral Obligations of the Conscious Postmodern Postmortem

10 - Should Vampires Be Held Accountable for Their Bloodthirsty Behavior?

Vampires versus Zombies Dracula: Amoral or Immoral? Noble Louis and Villainous Lestat Some Implications: Equal Rights for Vampires Universal Rights: Vampires, Space Aliens, Robots, and Humans

11 - The Bloody Connection Between Vampires and Vegetarians

Reasoning with Vampires Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t It’s a Matter of Taste Cold Clammy Consistency

12 - Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Vampires and the Hedonistic Paradox

The Vampire’s Plight I Am Neither Living nor Dead—I Am Undead Either Way, I’m Damned if I Do Good Guy Vampires?

13 - Deserving to Be a Vampire: The Ethical and Existential Elements of Vampirism

Got Blood? Does It Hurt? Undeath Sure Beats the Alternative Undeath: Ultimately Uninteresting? Deserving to Be a Vampire

PART IV - Digging Up the Body Politic

14 - The Political Economy of Non-Coercive Vampire Lifestyles

Libertarianism and Welfarism Defined Vampire Personhood Ethical and Political Implications of Vampire Personhood From Politics Back to Personhood Possibilities for Human-Vampire Co-operation

15 - Rousseau and the Vampires: Toward a Political Philosophy of the Undead

“No Evidence Is Lacking”: A Plague of Vampires Hunting Satan’s Brood: The Enemy Within Beyond Hunger Itchy and Scratchy: Cartoon Cannibalism Revulsion: Our Dead Bodies, Our Selves Oceans of Time: The Romantic Vampire Alien Invasions: The Vampiric Immigrant The Evil Enemy In the Borderlands of Buffy World A Political Philosophy of Vampires

16 - The Undead Martyr: Sex, Death, and Revolution in George Romero’s Zombie Films

Repressive Civilization The Destructive Union of Eros and Thanatos The Possibility of a Non-Repressive Civilization

17 - When They Aren’t Eating Us, They Bring Us Together: Zombies and the ...

Civic-Mindedness versus Fear Communitarian Impulse Importance of Community Connection No Way Out

PART V - Leaving a Good-Looking Corpse

18 - The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween

Halloween: The Festival of the Wandering Undead The Paradox of Halloween A Psychoanalytic Solution The Meta-Fear of Fear

19 - “Powerful, Beautiful, and Without Regret”: Femininity, Masculinity, and ...

Beauty 101 “I’m Too Sexy for My Mirror” The Female Vampire as Femme Fatale The Male Vampire as Metrosexual . . . Sort Of

20 - True and Untrue Blood

Blood Is the Life The Fount of Immortality Let It Bleed False Blood Oh Yes, There Will Be Blood

21 - The Twilight of Infinite Desire

A Meditation on the Word

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