Existential Joss Whedon to be published in September by Mavourneen

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Existential Joss Whedon to be published in September

POSTED BY: MAVOURNEEN
UPDATED: Thursday, July 6, 2006 08:21
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Thursday, July 6, 2006 7:45 AM

Just found this on Amazon...a new book in the same vein as Finding Serenity. Description is copied from McFarlandpub.com, as there is no description on this yet at Amazon. Haken, can you link this so that we can support FFF.net when we buy???

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786427817/ref=sr_11_1/103-7991204-17
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Description
This study examines the major works of contemporary American television and film screenwriter Joss Whedon. The authors argue that these works are part of an existentialist tradition that stretches back from the French atheistic existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, through the Danish Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard, to the Russian novelist and existentialist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Whedon and Dostoevsky, for example, seem preoccupied with the problem of evil and human freedom. Both argue that in each and every one of us “a demon lies hidden.” Whedon personifies these demons and has them wandering about and causing havoc. Dostoevsky treats the subject only slightly more seriously.

Chapters cover such topics as Russian existentialism and vampire slayage; moral choices; ethics; faith and bad faith; constructing reality through existential choice; some limitations of science and technology; love and self-sacrifice; love, witchcraft, and vengeance; soul mates and moral responsibility; love and moral choice; forms of freedom; and Whedon as moral philosopher

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 7:51 AM

CYBERSNARK

Cool. Yet another book that will never appear in brick'n'mortar stores (I have yet to see hide nor scale of "Finding Serenity" in any bookstore).

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 8:21 AM

MAVOURNEEN

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