Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
By John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic
Length3h 23m
About this audiobook
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.
The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Other
Length3 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 9, 2020
LanguageCzech
Table of contents
1Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
185.2 Famine
2Authors
195.2.1 Suicide, Economic Status and Economic Volatility
3Acknowledgements
205.2.2 Suicide and Political Stability
41. A New Zeitgeist
215.2.3 Suicide, Marital Status and Religious Affiliation
52. A Transition in Metaphors: A Brief History of Monster Zeitgeists
225.3 Pestilence
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63. The Four Symbols of the Zombie Metaphor
235.4 War: 5.4.1 Reality Disengaged: On Bullshit
73.1 The First Symbol: The Semiosis of the Zombie: 3.1.1 Intensifying Meaninglessness: Zombies as a Threat to the Three Marks of Realness
246. An Introduction to the Genealogy of the Meaning Crisis
83.2 The Second Symbol: The Name of the Zombie
256.1 The Meaning that Was Lost: Three Orders of a Worldview
93.3 The Third Symbol: The Failure of the Metanarrative
266.1.1 Nomological Order
103.4 The Fourth Symbol: The Zombie Apocalypse
276.1.2 Narrative Order
113.4.1 Intensifying Meaninglessness II: The Zombie is Bankrupt; It Lacks Insight
286.1.3 Normative Order
123.4.2 The History of the Zombie Apocalypse
296.2 How the Meaning Was Lost: The Fall of the Three Orders
133.4.3 The Ecology of Worldview
306.2.1 Supremacy of Will over Reason
144. A Worldview in Crisis: The Domicide of Apocalypse
316.2.2 Luther and the Narcissistic Self
154.1 Grassy Narrows: 4.2 Domicide of the Hellenistic Era
326.2.3 Pluralism and the Copernican Revolution
165. The Four Horsemen of the Zombie Apocalypse: Converging Evidence for a Crisis in Meaning
337. Conclusion
175.1 Death
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