Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone
Being and Killing

A series of essays that provide little insight, pop culture understanding and often repeat the same points. Yes we get it, you've watched Dexter and Silence of the Lambs an can write an essay.......more

A collection of essays that varied in quality. Several were terrible, with one giving outlandish estimates of the numbers of victims killed each year by serial killers. (Historian Philip Jenkins puts that nonsense to rest in his book “Using Murder”.). I was disappointed by the focus on Dexter in one......more

Only read 65%. Won't finish. So far they keep talking about TV shows and movies with serial killers in them. Also saying that Tom riddley from Patricia Highsmiths book only killed when he had to is false. He didn't have to kill anyone and even if he had killed the first dude, he later could've avoid......more

i have read quite a lot on this subject, and this book did not really tell me anything new. It is a collection of essays, mostly by professors. The majority of these essays left me feeling undernourished. They felt pointless and hollow. If you have not read very much about serial killers you might w......more

Mmm, me gustó la variedad de perspectivas con las cuales abordar el tema, la moral, la responsabilidad, la filosofía, la culpabilidad, los estigmas y prejuicios, la inocencia, la definición del concepto de empatía, etc. Es un poco soso de leer, de repente perdía el interés, si soy sincera. Pero apre......more