Philosophy and breaking bad 2017

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Dedication ; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Walt's Hero Journey; Part 1: "We Tried to Poison You": Breaking Evil; Chapter 1: What's Stopping Me: Breaking Bad and€Virtue Ethics; Miltonic Ethics; Sin Versus Vice: Two Traditions; Notes; Chapter 2: Eichmann in€Albuquerque; "Stay Out of€My Territory & ; "Oh Well, Heil Hitler, Bitch!"; "It Is the€Purest, Most Chemically Sound Product on€the€Market, Anywhere & ; "I Woke Up. I€Found Her. That's All I€Know & ; "You Are Not the€Guy & ; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Empathy and€Evil: Drug-Dealing Murderers Are People Too; Stein's Account of€Empathy. Dedication Contents Contributors Introduction: Walt's Hero Journey Part 1: "We Tried to Poison You": Breaking Evil Chapter 1: What's Stopping Me: Breaking Bad and€Virtue Ethics Miltonic Ethics Sin Versus Vice: Two Traditions Notes Chapter 2: Eichmann in€Albuquerque "Stay Out of€My Territory & "Oh Well, Heil Hitler, Bitch!" "It Is the€Purest, Most Chemically Sound Product on€the€Market, Anywhere & "I Woke Up. I€Found Her. That's All I€Know & "You Are Not the€Guy & Conclusion Notes Chapter 3: Empathy and€Evil: Drug-Dealing Murderers Are People Too Stein's Account of€Empathy. Merleau-Ponty's Concept of€the€Phenomenal Body and€Other SubjectsThe Ethical Component of€Empathy Conclusion Notes Part 2: "I Am the One Who Knocks": The Shadow of Death and the Meaning of Life Chapter 4: In the€Shadow of€the€Sickness Unto Death: Walter White's Transformation into the€Knight of€Meth From the€Sickness Unto Death to€Finding the€Drug Lord in€the€Desert Adapting in€the€Shadow of€Uncertainty The Mysterious Conjunction of€Love and€Death Toward the€Alchemy of€Breaking Bad From Love in€Despair to€the€Love of€Despair: Heisenberg and€the€Danger Participation Mystique. ConclusionNotes Chapter 5: Death Is Easy If You're Dead Death Date Certain Walter, You€Can't Take It with€You The Deconstruction of€the€Unsaid: Care Immortal or Eternal Conclusion Notes Chapter 6: Cosmic Justice in€Breaking Bad: Can Sociopaths and€Antiheroes Lead Meaningful Lives? Cosmic and€Terrestrial Meaning Hard Meaning-Subjectivism Soft Meaning-Subjectivism Theistic Theories Conclusion Notes Chapter 7: Law and€Morality in€Breaking Bad: The€Aesthetics of€Justice Walt Fought the€Law There's What's Right and€There's What's Right The Emergence of€Positivism. Walt's Positively WrongProblems of€Justice The Transcendent, Aesthetic Justice of€Breaking Bad Part 3: "I Will Put You Under the Jail": The Tragedy of Breaking Bad Chapter 8: The Crumbling Patriarchy and€Triumphant Feminist Ethic of€Care in€Breaking Bad "Who's in€Charge? Me" "A Man Provides" "Someone Has to€Protect This Family from€the€Man Who Protects This Family" "I'm Not Your Wife. I'm Your Hostage" "Live Free or Die" "We Make Poison for€People Who Don't Care" "The Clinching Interlocking Claws, a€Living, Fierce, Gyrating Wheel" Notes. Chapter 9: What Bad Is Not: Breaking Bad, Apophatic and€Dramaturgic Continua from€Creator to€Viewer, and€a€Poetics of€the€ Philosophy of€ReligionThe Existence of€God Poetics of€the€Problem of€Evil and€Gilligan's Theodicy: Raising the€Stakes Overlap of€Scientism and€Religious Literalism Negative Theology: Antidote to€Reductionism? A€Path of€Redemptive Tragedy? Full-on Immersion in€Defeat: The€Initiation of€Tragedy A Moral Aesthetic and€"The Monster" of€the€Imagination: A€Settlement Between Secular and€Religious Ethics Strategies for€Not Succumbing to€Reduction.