The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy: Hungry for More (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 97)

In The Walking Dead , human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion—all the ultimate questions of human existence are posed afresh as the old society crumbles away and a new form of society emerges, with new beliefs and new rules. The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together twenty philosophers with different perspectives on the imagined world of this addictive TV show. How can we keep our humanity when faced with such extreme life-or-death choices? Did Dr. Jenner do the right thing in committing suicide, when all hope seemed to be lost? Does the Governor, as the new Machiavelli, prove that willingness to repeatedly commit murder is the best technique for getting and keeping political power? Why do most characters place such importance on keeping particular individuals alive, especially children? What can we learn about reality from Rick’s haunting hallucinations? Contents Thanks To the Reader Hungry for More I: Afraid of Being Alive? 1. Reading the Signs 2. Maybe Jenner Was Right 3. I Want You to Survive WALKER BITE: Let's Just Do What's Right II: Not the Good Guy Any More 4. Lie or Die 5. Back from the Dead WALKER BITE: Differentiating the Dead 6. Punishing Negan III. Lose a Lot of Soldiers and Still Win the Game 7. Machiavelli Advises the Governor 8. The Warring Dead 9. Anarchy, State, and Apocalypse WALKER BITE: If I Don't Save the World I Have No Value 10. We're Not Free to Save Lee IV. Look at the Flowers 11. I Ain't No Holllaback Girl! 12. They Just Want Me to Be Like Them 13. Carol's Transformation WALKER BITE: Innonecne in Shambles 14. Carol Didn't Care V. Every Direction Is a Question 15. My Zombie, My Self 16. The Truth about the Walkers 17. What If Our Reality Is One Big Hallucination? WALKER BITE: Are You Being Saved? 18. Gruesome Walkers References We're Friends with the Chick with the Sword and the Kid in the Hat Index The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together twenty philosophers with different perspectives on the imagined world of this addictive TV show. How can we keep our humanity when faced with such extreme life-or-death choices? Did Dr. Jenner do the right thing in committing suicide, when all hope seemed to be lost? Does the Governor, as the new Machiavelli, prove that willingness to repeatedly commit murder is the best technique for getting and keeping political power? Why do most characters place such importance on keeping particular individuals alive, especially children? What can we learn about reality from Rick{u2019}s haunting hallucinations?