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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy Everything Is Fire

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ISBN-10: 0470947586

ISBN-13: 9780470947586

Edition: 2012

Authors: William Irwin, Eric Bronson

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The essential companion to Stieg Larssons bestselling trilogy and director David Finchers 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larssons bestselling Millennium Trilogy- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest-is an international phenomenon. These books express Larssons lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for womens rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical? Drawing…    
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List price: $14.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Lara Hoffmans specializes in managing high net worth clients. She is the Senior Content Editor at Fisher Investments, and coauthored with Ken Fisher the bestsellers The Only Three Questions that Count and The Ten Roads to Riches.

Eric Bronson heads the philosophy and history departments at Berkeley College in New York City. He coedited The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy and contributed to The Simpsons and Philosophy and Seinfeld and Philosophy. He lives in new York City.

Acknowledgments: Confidential Sources
Introduction: The Girl Who Kicked the Sophists' Nest
Lisbeth "The Idiot" Salander
Labeling Lisbeth: Sti(e)gma and Spoiled Identity
The Mis-Education of Lisbeth Salander and the Alchemy of the At-Risk Child
The Girl Who Turned the Tables: A Queer Reading of Lisbeth Salander
Mikael "Do-Gooder" Blomkvist
Why Are So Many Women F***ing Kalle Blomkvist?: Larsson's Philosophy of Female Attraction
Why Journalists and Geniuses Love Coffee and Hate Themselves
The Making of Kalle Blomkvist: Crime Journalism in Postwar Sweden
Stieg Larsson, Mystery Man
The Philosopher Who Knew Stieg Larsson: A Brief Memoir
"This Isn't Some Damned Locked-Room Mystery Novel": Is The Millennium Trilogy Popular Fiction or Literature?
Why We Enjoy Reading about Men Who Hate Women: Aristotle's Cathartic Appeal
The Dragon Tattoo and the Voyeuristic Reader
"Everyone has Secrets"
Hacker's Republic: Information Junkies in a Free Society
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: The Hidden "Section" in Every Institution
Secret Meetings: The Truth Is in the Gossip
75,000 Volts of Vengeance Can't be Wrong, Can It?
The Principled Pleasure: Lisbeth's Aristotelian Revenge
Acting Out of Duty or Just Acting Out?: Salander and Kant
To Catch a Thief: The Ethics of Deceiving Bad People
Contributors: The Knights of the Philosophic Table
Index: Code Words