The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire - Softcover

To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminalsthemselves?

Would Aristotle read Larsson's mystery books on a beach?

Can revenge be ethical?

What's the deal with all that coffee?

Drawing a thin moral line between their own actions and thecriminal schemes they seekto unravel in the internationalbestselling Millennium Trilogy, tattooed and troubledcomputerhacker Lisbeth Salander and disgraced middle-aged journalist MikaelBlomkvist form the most unlikely pairing of heroes in popularfictionhistory—and one of the most compelling. Drawing onsome of history's greatestphilosophical minds, The Girl with theDragon Tattoo and Philosophy gives fresh insight into the complexethical framework of this sleuthing odd couple and the keyepistemological themes driving Stieg Larsson's ingeniouslyplottedtales of crime and corruption in Sweden's dark underbelly.Topics such as theAristotelian arguments for why we love revenge,Kantian theories explaining why so many women sleep with MikaelBlomkvist, feminist readings of Lisbeth Salander, andLarsson'sviews on skepticism offer a huge helping of metaphysical morselsthat will more than satisfy the intellectual appetite of devotedLarsson fans everywhere.

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This book has not been approved, licensed, or sponsored by anyentity orperson involved in creating or producing The MillenniumTrilogy or the movies.

WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King'sCollege in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophyand popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestsellingThe Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titlesincluding House and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland andPhilosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.