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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale is a 2003 academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by two TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
| Editor | James B. South |
|---|---|
| Author | Various |
| Subject | Buffyverse |
| Genre | academic publication, media study |
| Publisher | Open Court Publishing Company |
Publication date | March 2003 |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 0-8126-9531-3 |
| OCLC | 51481996 |
| 791.45/72 21 | |
| LC Class | PN1992.77.B84 B835 2003 |
The book was reviewed by Rebecca Housel in The Journal of Popular Culture,[1] Maxine Phillips in Commonweal,[2] Karen Bennett in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,[3] and Margaret Weigel in The Women's Review of Books.[4]
Book description
editDespite creator Joss Whedon's professed atheism, Buffy often dealt with religious and philosophical symbolism. The book is made up of a collection of essays that link classical philosophy to the Buffy show's ability to explore the underlying evil in everyday life through supernatural metaphor.[citation needed]
Contents
edit| Chapter | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Faith and Plato: 'You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch'" | Greg Forster |
| 02 | "Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer" | Karl Schudt |
| 03 | "'The I in Team': Buffy and Feminist Ethics" | Jessica Prater Miller |
| 04 | "BtVS as Feminist Noir" | Thomas Hibbs |
| 05 | "Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass" | Mimi Marinucci |
| 06 | "Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond" | Andrew Aberdein |
| 07 | "Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars" | Madeline M. Muntersbjorn |
| 08 | "Between Heaven and Hells: Multidimensional Cosmology in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" | James Lawler |
| 09 | "Buffy Goes to College, Adam "Murder(s) to Dissect": Education and Knowledge in a Postmodern World" | Toby Daspit |
| 10 | ""My God, it's like a Greek tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality" | James B. South |
| 11 | "Should We Do What Buffy Would Do?" | Jason Kawal |
| 12 | "Passion and Action – In and Out of Control" | Carolyn Korsmeyer |
| 13 | "Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox" | Sharon Kaye and Melissa Milavec |
| 14 | "A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" | Scott R. Stroud |
| 15 | "Brown Skirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon" | Neal King |
| 16 | "Prophecy Girl and the Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse" | Wendy Love Anderson |
| 17 | "Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse" | Jacob Held |
| 18 | "No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption" | Gregory J. Sakal |
| 19 | "Old Familiar Vampires: The Politics of the Buffyverse" | Jeffrey L. Pasley |
| 20 | "Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" | Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen |
| 21 | "High School is Hell: Metaphor made Literal" | Tracy Little |
| 22 | "Feeling for Buffy – The Girl Next Door" | Michael Levine and Steven Jay Schneider |
References
edit- ^ Housel, Rebecca (May 2004). "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale". The Journal of Popular Culture. 37 (4): 727–729. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2004.096_5.x. ISSN 0022-3840. ProQuest 195365538. Retrieved March 24, 2024 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Phillips, Maxine (November 7, 2003). "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy". Commonweal. Vol. 130, no. 19. pp. 38–40. ISSN 0010-3330. ProQuest 210394323. Retrieved March 24, 2024 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Bennett, Karen (2003). "Book Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. James B. South (ed.)". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 10. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ Weigel, Margaret (2003). "The Expanding Buffyverse". The Women's Review of Books. 21 (1): 18. doi:10.2307/4024277. JSTOR 4024277 – via JSTOR.