Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Supernatural Humans

We Can’t Live Without xi

Introduction: Undead Wisdom 1

PART ONE TWILIGHT

1 You Look Good Enough to Eat: Love, Madness, and the Food Analogy 7
George A. Dunn

2 Dying to Eat: The Vegetarian Ethics of Twilight 25
Jean Kazez

3 Can a Vampire Be a Person? 39
Nicolas Michaud

4 Carlisle: More Compassionate Than a Speeding Bullet? 49
Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen

PART TWO NEW MOON

5 Vampire-Dämmerung: What Can Twilight Tell Us about God? 63
Peter S. Fosl and Eli Fosl

6 To Bite or Not to Bite: Twilight, Immortality, and the Meaning of Life 79
Brendan Shea

7 Mind Reading and Morality: The Moral Hazards of Being Edward 93
Eric Silverman

8 Love and Authority among Wolves 107
Sara Worley

PART THREE ECLIPSE

9 Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: All the Old Myths Are Not True 121
Naomi Zack

10 Vampire Love: The Second Sex Negotiates the Twenty-first Century 131
Bonnie Mann

11 Edward Cullen and Bella Swan: Byronic and Feminist Heroes . . . or Not 147
Abigail E. Myers

12 Undead Patriarchy and the Possibility of Love 163
Leah McClimans and J. Jeremy Wisnewski

13 The “Real” Danger: Fact vs. Fiction for the Girl Audience 177
Rebecca Housel

PART FOUR BREAKING DAWN

14 Twilight of an Idol: Our Fatal Attraction to Vampires 193
Jennifer L. McMahon

15 Bella’s Vampire Semiotics 209
Dennis Knepp

16 Space, Time, and Vampire Ontology 219
Philip Puszczalowski

17 For the Strength of Bella? Meyer, Vampires, and Mormonism 227
Marc E. Shaw

18 The Tao of Jacob 237
Rebecca Housel

CONTRIBUTORS: Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing the Stars of Our Show, Humans, Vampires, and Shape-Shifters Alike 247

INDEX: For Those Who Can’t Read Minds 253