Serial Killers : Philosophy for Everyone : Being and Killing.
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| Author / Creator: | Allhoff, Fritz. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken : Wiley, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy for Everyone ; v.36 Philosophy for Everyone. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10011151 |
Table of Contents:
- SERIAL KILLERS PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART II THINK THEREFORE I KILL: The Philosophical Musings of Serial Killers; 1 Man is the Most Dangerous Animal of all: A Philosophical Gaze into the Writings of the Zodiac Killer; 2 A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus; 3 The Situation of the Jury: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers; PART II CAN YOU BLAME THEM? ETHICS, EVIL, AND SERIAL KILLING; 4 Serial Killers as Practical Moral Skeptics: A Historical Survey with Interviews
- 5 Are Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What They Do?6 Sympathy for the Devil: Can a Serial Killer Ever Be Good?; PART III DANGEROUS INFATUATIONS: The Public Fascination with Serial Killers; 7 The Allure of the Serial Killer; 8 Dexter's Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero; PART IV A EULOGY FOR EMOTION: The Lack of Empathy and the Urge to Kill; 9 Killing with Kindness: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer; 10 It Puts the Lotion in the Basket: The Language of Psychopathy; 11 Are Serial Killers Cold-Blooded Killers?
- PART V CREEPY COGNITION: Talking and Thinkingabout Serial Killers12 The Serial Killer was (Cognitively) Framed; 13 Wolves and Widows: Naming, Metaphor, and the Language of Serial Murder; 14 An Arresting Conversation: Police Philosophize about the Armed and Dangerous; PART VI PSYCHO-OLOGY: Killer Mindsets and Meditations on Murder; 15 Psychopathy and Will to Power: Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader; 16 The Thread of Death, or the Compulsion to Kill; A Solemn Afterword: A Message from the Victim's Network; A Timeline of Serial Killers; Notes on Contributors