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Dexter and philosophy: mind over splatter

✍ Scribed by Richard Greene


Publisher
Open Court
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
237 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?
Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However his gory appetite is controlled by β€œHarry’s Code,” which limits his victims to those who have gotten away with murder, and his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department gives him the inside track on just who those legitimate targets may be.
In Dexter and Philosophy, an elite team of philosophers don their rubber gloves and put Dexter’s deeds under the microscope. Since Dexter is driven to ritual murder by his β€œDark Passenger,” can he be blamed for killing, especially as he only murders other murderers? Does Dexter...


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