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Contents Acknowledgments (Un)dead (Un)certainties Part I It's Alive (Sort Of) 1. The Badness of Undeath RICHARD GREENE 2. Res Corporealis: Persons, Bodies, and Zombies WILLIAM S. LARKIN 3. "She's Not Your Mother Anymore, She's a Zombie!": Zombies, Value, and Personal Identity HAMISH THOMPSON 4 Dead Serious: Evil and the Ontology of the Undead MANUEL VARGAS 5. Zombies, Blade Runner, and the Mind-Body Problem LARRY HAUSER Part II Undead White Males 6. Heidegger the Vampire Slayer: The Undead and Fundamental Ontology ADAM BARROWS 7. When There's No More Room in Hell, the Dead Will Shop the Earth: Romero and Aristotle on Zombies, Happiness, and Consumption MATT WALKER 8. Zombies, Rest and Motion: Spinoza and the Speed of Undeath K. SILEM MOHAMMAD Part III Dirty Rotting Scoundrels 9. Zombie Gladiators DALE JACQUETTE 10. Should Vampires Be Held Accountable for Their Bloodthirsty Behavior? JOHN DRAEGER 11. The Bloody Connection Between Vampires and Vegetarians WAYNE YUEN 12. Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't: Vampires and the Hedonistic Paradox ROBERT ARP 13. Deserving to Be a Vampire: The Ethical and Existential Elements of Vampirism TED M. PRESTON Part IV Digging up the Body Politic 14. The Political Economy of Non-Coercive Vampire Lifestyles DOUGLAS GLEN WHITMAN 15. Rousseau and the Vampires: Toward a Political Philosophy of the Undead PHILLIP COLE 16. The Undead Martyr: Sex, Death, and Revolution in George Romero's Zombie Films SIMON CLARK 17. When They Aren't Eating Us, They Bring Us Together: Zombies and the American Social Contract LEAH A. MURRAY Part V Leaving a Good-looking Corpse 18. The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween NOËL CARROLL 19. "Powerful, Beautiful, and Without Regret": Femininity, Masculinity, and the Vampire Aesthetic JOAN GRASSBAUGH FORRY Philosophers by Day . . . Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Demonology.
Demonology in literature.
Demonology in motion pictures.
Vampires.
Werewolves.
Zombies.
Ghouls and ogres.