Dexter and Philosophy: Mind Over Spatter

by George A. Reisch and Richard V. Greene

Book Overview

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 "Harry's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812697170
• ISBN13: 9780812697179
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"