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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death.
  • Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers
  • Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers such as Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers such as Dexter and Hannibal Lecter
  • Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings of the Zodiac Killer
  • Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy's victims submitted by the organization Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
  • Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crime writers and police officers

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing

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Paperback / softback by Fritz Allhoff , S. Waller

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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/09/2010
    ISBN13: 9781405199636, 978-1405199636
    ISBN10: 1405199636

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death.
    • Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers
    • Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers such as Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers such as Dexter and Hannibal Lecter
    • Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings of the Zodiac Killer
    • Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy's victims submitted by the organization Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
    • Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crime writers and police officers

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