True blood and philosophy: we want to think bad things with you

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NEW BLOOD EDITION: Contains three new chapters from Season 3. This new edition is available as an E-BOOK ONLY and contains three chapters not found in the print book! The first look at the philosophical issues behind Charlaine Harris's New York Times bestsellers The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the True Blood television series! Teeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape of vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and the like, True Blood, the popular HBO series adapted from Charlaine Harris's bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a rich collection of themes to explore, from sex and romance to bigotry and violence to death and immortality. The goings-on in the mythical town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, where vampires satiate their blood lust and openly commingle with ordinary humans, present no shortages of juicy metaphysical... The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: For the "Supes" We Just Can't Live Without. Introduction: "If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It's Still a Tree Ain't It?" PART ONE: "I USED TO HATE VAMPIRES, UNTIL I GOT TO KNOW ONE": VAMPIRE-HUMAN ETHICS. 1 To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires (Christopher Robichaud). 2 Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in the Human Playground (Jennifer Culver). 3 Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood (Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn). PART TWO: "LIFE-CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS": THE POLITICS OF BEING DEAD. 4 Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract (Joseph J. Foy). 5 "Honey, If We Can't Kill People, What's the Point of Being a Vampire?": Can Vampires Be Good Citizens? (William M. Curtis). 6 Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artificiality (Bruce A. McClelland). PART THREE: "THEIR VERY BLOOD IS SEDUCTIVE": EROS, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER. 7 Coming Out of the Coffin and Coming Out of the Closet (Patricia Brace and Robert Arp). 8 "I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!": Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence (Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell). 9 Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex (Ron Hirschbein). PART FOUR: "I AM ACTUALLY OLDER THAN YOUR JESUS": NATURAL, SUPERNATURAL, AND DIVINE. 10 Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Good Times (Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn). 11 Are Vampires Unnatural? (Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen). 12 Does God Hate Fangs? (Adam Barkman). PART FIVE: "OUR EXISTENCE IS INSANITY": THE METAPHYSICS OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS. 13 A Vampire's Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientifi c Naturalism Can t Understand (Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust). 14 Keeping Secrets from Sookie (Fred Curry). 15 Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More They Change, the More They Stay the Same (Sarah Grubb). CONTRIBUTORS: "I Don't Know Who You Think You Are, but Before the Night Is Through ..." INDEX: Sookie's Words of the Day.