Win one of two copies of True Blood and Philosophy

Anna Paquinas Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton in True Blood
Anna Paquinas Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton in True Blood

Fans of True Blood will just love this one. John Wiley & Sons recently released True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things With You, the latest in The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. True Blood and Philosophy was edited by George A. Dunn and Rebecca Housel, along with series editor William Irwin, and answers the questions fans have pondered, like Does God hate fangs and is Sam still Sam when he turns into a collie?

To celebrate the release of this fun new title from Wiley and Blackwell, FilmFetish is giving away two copies of the book for two lucky readers to devour.

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I’ll be running the True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things With You contest through June 21, 2010.

More about True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things With You

  • Does God hate fangs?
  • Is Sam still Sam when he turns into a collie?
  • Is coming out of the coffin the same as coming out of the closet?
  • Are all vampires created evil?

Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, telepaths – True Blood has it all. In a world where supernatural creatures coexist with human beings, Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton wrestle with powerful desires while facing complex issues concerning sex, romance, bigotry, violence, death, and immortality. Now True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of some of history’s great thinkers to perform some philosophical bloodletting on this thought-provoking series. From the metaphysics of mind reading to Maryann Forrester’s cult of Dionysus, from vampire politics to the nature of personal identity, and from contemporary feminism to the rights of nonhuman species, True Blood and Philosophy mines the thinking of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John Rawls to enlighten us on the intriguing themes that surround this supernatural world. You’ll find no shortage of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your teeth into!

About the Authors
George A. Dunn is a lecturer at the University of Indianapolis and Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China. He contributed to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, X-Men and Philosophy, Terminator and Philosophy, Twilight and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Iron Man and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.

Rebecca Housel, a former professor of writing and popular culture, is now an author and editor serving on editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture. She coedited Twilight and Philosophy and X-Men and Philosophy.

William Irwin is a professor of philosophy at King’s College. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy.

About the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and a healthy helping of popular culture clears the cobwebs from Kant. Philosophy has had a public relations problem for a few centuries now. This series aims to change that, showing that philosophy is relevant to your life – and not just for answering the big questions like “To be or not to be?” but for answering the little questions: “To watch or not to watch House?” Thinking deeply about TV, movies, and music doesn’t make you a “complete idiot.” In fact it might make you a philosopher, someone who believes the unexamined life is not worth living and the unexamined cartoon is not worth watching.

True Blood and Philosophy book cover
True Blood and Philosophy

Learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series at www.andphilosophy.com.