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Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am

Jeffrey Ewing & Kevin S. Decker

First published 2017
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+225
Price $17.95
ISBN 9781119280811

  • Data from publisher's website and from Amazon Look Inside.
  • Irwin, the "Series Editor," is credited before Ewing and Decker, "Editors," in the list of authors on both the cover and the web page; however, the title page credits only Ewing and Decker. The names are given here as they appear on the title page although the website gives "Jeffrey A. Ewing."
  • Contributor bios: pp. x-xiv; Index: pp. 216-225
  • Divided into sections: "Identity and Moral Considerability: 'We Made You Because We Could'" (three essays); "Ethics: 'I Don't Know Which Species Is Worse'" (four essays); "Moral Psychology: 'Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Mortality'" (three essays); "Horror: 'They Mostly Come at Night'" (three essays); "Sex and Gender: 'None of Them Have Seen a Woman in Years'" (three essays); "Continental Philosophy: 'I'm the Monster's Mother'" (three essays).

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: A Word of Warning ... Jeffrey Ewing & Kevin S. Decker Essay
7 "No Man Needs Nothing": The Possibility of Androids as Lockean Persons in Alien and Prometheus Chris Lay Essay
17 Androids: Artificial Persons or Glorified Toasters? Joe Slater Essay
25 "All Other Priorities Are Rescinded": The Moral Status of Employees in the Alien Franchise James M. Okapal Essay
39 Disposable Assets: Weyland-Yutani's Special Brew of Business Ethics Bruno de Brito Serra Essay
48 Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani Alejandro Bárcenas Essay
55 The Public and Its Alien Problem David Denneny Essay
67 Cross My Heart and Hope to Die: Why Ripley Must Save Newt William A. Lindenmuth Essay
83 Nuking the Colony to Save It: Colonial Marines and Just Wars Louis Melançon Essay
93 Xenomorphs and the Benefits of Exposure to Violence as Education Sabina Tokbergenova & Adam Barkman Essay
101 Alien, Alienation, and Alien Nation Daniel Conway (scholar) Essay
117 Terror from the Stars: Alien as Lovecraftian Horror Greg Littmann Essay
132 Art-Horror Environments and the Alien Series Martin Glick Essay
140 Contagion: Impurity, Mental Illness, and Suicide in AlienÂł Kevin S. Decker Essay
155 Ellen Ripley: The Rise of the Matriarch Andrea Zanin Essay
166 Is Ellen Ripley a Feminist? Alexander Christian Essay
178 Alien Violation: Male Bodily Integrity in an Equal Opportunity Rape Culture Tim Jones (scholar) Essay
189 The Alien as Ăśbermensch: Overcoming Morality in Order to Become the Perfect Killer Robert M. Mentyka Essay
198 "Why Do You Go On Living?" Ripley-8 and the Absurd Seth M. Walker Essay
207 God Save the Xenomorph Queen: Defending Xenomorph Self-Defense Jeffrey Ewing Essay