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Every generation produces a counterculture icon. Joss Whedon, creator of the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is famed for his subversive wit, rich characters, and extraordinary plotlines. His renown has only grown with subsequent creations, including Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and the innovative online series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Through premises as unusual as a supernatural detective agency run by a vampire and a Western set in outer space, Whedon weaves stories about characters forced to make commonplace moral decisions under the most bizarre of circumstances. The Philosophy of Joss Whedon examines Whedon's plots and characterizations to reveal their philosophical takes on the limits of personal freedom, sexual morality, radical evil, and Daoism.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Series Page
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. Part 1: "You Can't Take the Sky from Me": Freedom and Its Limits
  2. p. 7
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  1. Firefly and Freedom
  2. pp. 9-23
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  1. "Just Get Us a Little Further": Liberty and the Frontier in Firefly and Serenity
  2. pp. 24-38
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  1. The State of Nature and Social Contracts on Spaceship Serenity
  2. pp. 39-54
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  1. Dollhouse and Consensual Slavery
  2. pp. 55-68
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  1. Part 2: "Live as Though the World Were as It Should Be": Ethics and Virtue
  2. p. 69
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  1. Plato, Aristotle, and Joss on Being Horrible
  2. pp. 71-87
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  1. Aristotle, Kant, Spike, and Jayne: Ethics and Character in the Whedonverse
  2. pp. 88-102
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  1. Companions, Dolls, and Whores: Joss Whedon on Sex and Prostitution
  2. pp. 103-116
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  1. Fashioning Feminism: Whedon, Women, and Wardrobe
  2. pp. 117-132
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  1. Heroes and Villains: Morality, the Will to Power, and the Overman in the Work of Joss Whedon
  2. pp. 133-147
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  1. Part 3: "I'm All of Them, but None of Them Is Me": The Human Condition
  2. p. 149
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  1. Seeking Authenticity in the Whedonverse
  2. pp. 151-167
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  1. "Look What Free Will Has Gotten You": Isolation, Individuality, and Choice in Angel
  2. pp. 168-181
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  1. Aiming to Misbehave at the Boundary between the Human and the Machine: The Queer Steampunk Ecology of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity
  2. pp. 182-193
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  1. Shepherd Book, Malcolm Reynolds, and the Dao of Firefly
  2. pp. 194-207
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 208-209
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  1. Appendix: A History of the Whedonverse
  2. pp. 211-221
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  1. Contributors
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 227-231
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