| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages). |
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| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 97 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 97.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Afraid of being alive? Reading the signs -- Maybe Jenner was right -- I want you to survive -- Walker bite: let's just do what's right -- II. Not the good guy anymore. Lie or die -- Back from the dead -- Walker bite: differentiating the dead -- Punishing Negan -- III. Lose a lot of soldiers and still win the game. Machiavelli advises the governor -- The warring dead -- Anarchy, state, and apocalypse -- Walker bite: if I don't save the world, I have no value -- We're not free to save Lee -- IV. Look at the flowers. I ain't no Hollaback girl! -- They just want me to be like them -- Carol's transformation -- Walker bite: innocence in shambles -- Carol didn't care -- V. Every direction is a question. My zombie, my self -- The truth about the walkers -- What if our reality is one big hallucination? -- Walker bite: are you being saved? -- Gruesome walkers. |
| Summary |
"In The Walking Dead, human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion--all the ultimate questions of human existence are posed afresh as the old society crumbles away and a new form of society emerges, with new beliefs and new rules. The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together twenty philosophers with different perspectives on the imagined world of this addictive TV show. How can we keep our humanity when faced with such extreme life-or-death choices? Did Dr. Jenner do the right thing in committing suicide, when all hope seemed to be lost? Does the Governor, as the new Machiavelli, prove that willingness to repeatedly commit murder is the best technique for getting and keeping political power? Why do most characters place such importance on keeping particular individuals alive, especially children? What can we learn about reality from Rick's haunting hallucinations"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Kirkman, Robert. Walking dead.
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Walking dead (Television program)
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Walking dead (Kirkman, Robert) (OCoLC)fst01938236
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Walking dead (Television program) (OCoLC)fst01795598
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The walking dead Fernsehsendung.
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Graphic novels -- United States.
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Zombies in literature.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Graphic novels. (OCoLC)fst00946656
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Zombies in literature. (OCoLC)fst01905231
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Philosophie.
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| Genre/Form |
(DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung.
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(DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Yuen, Wayne, 1978- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ultimate Walking Dead and philosophy. Chicago, Illinois : Open Court, [2016] 081269905X (OCoLC)908071346 |
| ISBN |
9780812699159 (electronic book) |
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0812699157 (electronic book) |
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9780812699050 (paper) |
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081269905X (paper) |
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