Twilight and philosophy
Subtitle: vampires, vegetarians, and the pursuit of immortality
By: edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
Contributors: Housel, Rebecca.; Wisnewski, Jeremy.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series; Blackwell philosophy and popculture series
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780470484234
Subjects: Meyer, Stephenie, -- 1973-; Meyer, Stephenie, -- 1973- -- Philosophy; Vampires in literature; Immortality in literature; Immortality (Philosophy); Philosophy in literature
Description: With everything from Taoism to mind reading to the place of God in a world of vampires, this book offers some very tasty philosophy for both the living and the undead to sink their teeth into.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Twilight. You look good enough to eat: love, madness, and the food analogy / George A. Dunn ; Dying to eat: the vegetarian ethics of Twilight / Jean Kazez ; Can a vampire be a person? / Nicholas Michaud ; Carlisle: more compassionate than a speeding bullet? / Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen; title: New moon. Vampire-Dämmerung: what can Twilight tell us about God? / Peter S. Fosl and Eli Fosl ; To bite or not to bite: Twilight, immortality, and the meaning of life / Brendan Shea ; Mind reading and morality: the moral hazards of being Edward / Eric Silverman ; Love and authority among wolves / Sara Worley; title: Eclipse. Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: all the old myths are not true / Naomi Zack ; Vampire love: the second sex negotiates the twenty-first century / Bonnie Mann ; Edward Cullen and Bella Swan: Byronic and feminist heroes... or not / Abigail E. Myers ; Undead patriarchy and the possibility of love / Leah McClimans and J. Jeremy Wisnewski ; The "real" danger: fact vs. fiction for the girl audience / Rebecca Housel; title: Breaking dawn. Twilight of an idol: our fatal attraction to vampires / Jennifer L. McMahon ; Bella's vampires semiotics / Dennis Knepp ; Space, time, and vampire ontology / Philip Puszczalowski ; For the strength of Bella? Meyer, vampires, and Mormonism / Marc E. Shaw ; The Tao of Jacob / Rebecca Housel.