True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You
(Book #19 in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
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Book Overview
Does God hate fangs?
Is Sam still Sam when he turns into a collie?
Is coming out of the coffin the same as coming out of the closet?
Are all vampires created evil?
Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, telepaths--True Blood has it all. In a world where supernatural creatures coexist with human beings, Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton wrestle with powerful desires while facing complex issues concerning sex, romance, bigotry, violence, death, and immortality. Now, True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of some of history's great thinkers to perform some philosophical bloodletting on this thought-provoking series. From the metaphysics of mind reading to Maryann Forrester's cult of Dionysus, from vampire politics to the nature of personal identity, and from contemporary feminism to the rights of nonhuman species, True Blood and Philosophy mines the thinking of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John Rawls to enlighten us on the intriguing themes that surround this supernatural world. You'll find no shortage of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your teeth into!
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Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsTrue Blood and Philosophy--a good book for doing bad things
What makes this a useful book for approaching the Sookie Stackhouseverse is the editors centered the discussions around the Jace Everett song: by subtitling the work, "I wanna do bad things with you" they have clued us to the ethical arguments of their work, along with the novels and Television show. True Blood's popularity as an HBO show as well as Harris' rising star in the contemporary fantasy genre resulting from it,...
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Rated 4 starsSocietal Parallels Explored
"True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You" is a philosophical look at the cultural implications within the world of the HBO series True Blood. As it is not likely that the issues presented by the presence of vampires in our human society will actually become a problem for the world any time soon, this book shows the reader the parallels between the True Blood world and our own. The same issues that the...
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Rated 4 starsSookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex
True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things With You is an interesting book that discusses and analyzes True Blood the television series and The Sookie Stackhouse books. This book is food for thought. It takes different themes in True Blood and discusses them in detail. I think this book is a great conversation piece for fans of the show and books. I haven't watched the show True Blood, but I have read the first...
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Rated 4 starsBridget's Review
I have been fascinated with vampires, werewolves and witches since for as long as I can remember. It used to be that vampires were repulsing creatures who felt no remorse and had no soul. In today's world, becoming a vampire is a romantic notion. I have often wondered why this idea appealed to me and even though I can't quite put my finger on the how or why that I like it, all I know is I've been seduced by the thought of...
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Rated 5 starsTwo Fangs Up!
In the introduction of True Blood and Philosophy the editors state their confidence that our "enjoyment of True Blood will be enhanced by the time [we] spend...pondering some of the more philosophical quandaries" raised by the show. Does the book live up to that? Boy does it ever. It certainly did for me. My enjoyment of the show was enhanced so much by the end that not only do I have a greater appreciation for the show itself,...
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