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A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSerial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone
Subtitle of host publicationBeing and Killing
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages29-40
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781405199636
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 13 2010

Keywords

  • Beyond Belief-A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection-by Emlyn Williams
  • Brady's trial, and media coverage of trial
  • Moors Murders, characterizing Sadean and Nietzschean philosophical systems
  • Nietzsche, speaking of how the will to power-desire "to create the world before which you can kneel"
  • Philosophy and the Moors Murders
  • Philosophy of serial killing-Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus
  • Sadean Hero and the serial killer
  • Sadean heroes, evaluating conventional morality-through prism of self-interest
  • The Gates of Janus, Brady's philosophical beliefs-influencing his discussions of individual serial killers
  • The Moors Murders-seen as "a crime of our age"

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