Table of Contents

Part 1: The burden of Slayerness: Buffy, Faith, and Feminism 1. Faith and Plato: "You're Nothing! Disgusting, Murderous Bitch!" 2. Also Sprach Faith: The Problem of the Happy Rogue Vampire Slayer 3. Buffy and Feminist Ethics 4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir 5. Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass Part 2: Don't speak Latin In front of the books. Knowledge, Rationality, & Science in the Buffyverse 6. Balderdash and Chicanery: Science and Beyond in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7. Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Pals: The Slayer Subverts the Science Wars 8. Between Heaven and Hells: Multidimensional Cosmology in Kant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9. Buffy Goes to College, Adam Murders to Dissect: Education and Knowledge in a Postmodern World 10. "My God, it's Like a Greek Tragedy": Willow Rosenberg and Human Irrationality Part 3: Sacred duty, yadda, yadda, yadda: Buffy and Ethics 11. Should We Do What Buffy Would Do? 12. Passion and Action: In and Out of Control 13. Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer's Solution to Aristotle's Love Paradox 14. A Kantian Analysis of Moral Judgement in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Part 4: That's the kind of woolly-headed thinking that leads to being eaten: Religion and Politics in the Buffyverse 15. Brown Skirts: Fascism, Christianity, and the Eternal Demon 16. Prophecy Girl and the Powers That Be: The Philosophy of Religion in the Buffyverse 17: Justifying the Means: Punishment in the Buffyverse 18. No Big Win: Themes of Sacrifice, Salvation, and Redemption 19. Old Familiar Vampires: Radicalism and Liberalism in the Politics of the Buffyverse Part 5: You're all slaves to the television: Watching Buffy 20. Morality on Television: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 21. High School Is Hell: Metaphor Made Literal 22. Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door Open Court Publishing Company