True Blood and Philosophy, George A. Dunn
True Blood and Philosophy, George A. Dunn
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True Blood and Philosophy
We Wanna Think Bad Things with You

Author: George A. Dunn, William Irwin, Rebecca Housel

Narrator: Arielle DeLisle

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

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 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 morsels to sink your teeth into.

Now True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of some of history's great thinkers to perform some philosophical bloodletting on such topics as Sookie and the metaphysics of mindreading; Maryann and sacrificial religion; werewolves, shapeshifters, and personal identity; vampire politics, evil, desire, and much more.

Smart and entertaining, True Blood and Philosophy provides food—or blood—for thought, and a fun, new way to look at the series.

About George A. Dunn

George A. Dunn is a lecturer at the University of Indianapolis and the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China. He edited True Blood and Philosophy and contributed to Twilight and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Isis

I received an ARC of this book last year before it actually came out, and wrote a review of it for TrueBloodNet.com. My full review can be found here: [URL not allowed]-blood-ph... I'll just say that I did enjoy the book for the most part, but there were a few issues that stood out for me w......more

Goodreads review by Alexandria

Originally, I had planned on rating this a little lower because I thought it came out after the series. Being that the essays are timely with the seasons it mentions, it's overall pretty good. I enjoyed that it caused me to rethink the way I viewed the series so much that I decided to go back and re......more

Goodreads review by Todd

The fun of this philosophy series is that it uses popular themes and discuss philosophical ideas. From this book I found two very interesting ideas: 1) There is a theory that man uses games to navigate society. Man, Play, and Games by Roger Callois. This is not limited to what we traditionally call g......more

Goodreads review by Mikael

A better collection of esseys then I thought it would be when I started reading the book. As the philosophical questions are wrapped around a specific theme, True Blood, that I can live with or without (read the book for a course), it is kind of a mixed bag for me. Some esseys where really good, and......more

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