The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Confi dential Sources xv
Introduction: The Girl Who Kicked the Sophists' Nest 1
PART ONE: LISBETH "THE IDIOT" SALANDER
1 Labeling Lisbeth: Sti(e)gma and Spoiled Identity 7
Aryn Martin and Mary Simms
2 The Mis- Education of Lisbeth Salander and the Alchemyof the At- Risk Child 19
Chad William Timm
3 The Girl Who Turned the Tables: A Queer Reading of LisbethSalander 33
Kim Surkan
PART TWO: MIKAEL "DO-GOODER" BLOMKVIST
4 Why Are So Many Women F***ing Kalle Blomkvist?:Larsson's Philosophy of Female Attraction 49
Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen
5 Why Journalists and Geniuses Love Coffee and Hate Themselves65
Eric Bronson
6 The Making of Kalle Blomkvist: Crime Journalism in PostwarSweden 75
Ester Pollack
PART THREE: STIEG LARSSON, MYSTERY MAN
7 The Philosopher Who Knew Stieg Larsson: A Brief Memoir91
Sven Ove Hansson
8 "This Isn't Some Damned Locked- Room Mystery Novel": Is TheMillennium Trilogy Popular
Fiction or Literature? 107
Tyler Shores
9 Why We Enjoy Reading about Men Who Hate Women: Aristotle'sCathartic Appeal 120
Dennis Knepp
10 The Dragon Tattoo and the Voyeuristic Reader 128
Jaime Weida
PART FOUR: "EVERYONE HAS SECRETS"
11 Hacker's Republic: Information Junkies in a Free Society141
Andrew Zimmerman Jones
12 Kicking the Hornet's Nest: The Hidden "Section" in EveryInstitution 155
Adriel M. Trott
13 Secret Meetings: The Truth Is in the Gossip 166
Karen C. Adkins
PART FIVE: 75,000 VOLTS OF VENGEANCE CAN'T BE WRONG, CANIT?
14 The Principled Pleasure: Lisbeth's Aristotelian Revenge181
Emma L. E. Rees
15 Acting Out of Duty or Just Acting Out?: Salander and Kant189
Tanja Barazon
16 To Catch a Thief: The Ethics of Deceiving Bad People198
James Edwin Mahon
CONTRIBUTORS: The Knights of the Philosophic Table211
INDEX: Code Words 217