Science Fiction and Political Philosophy
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Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

From Bacon to Black Mirror
Timothy McCranor
Lexington Books
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ISBN-13:
9781498586443
Veröffentl:
2020
Seiten:
250
Autor:
Timothy McCranor
Serie:
Politics, Literature, & Film
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
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This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.
Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction’s focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the perennial questions of political life, including the nature of a just social order and who should rule; freedom, free will, and autonomy; and the advantages and disadvantages of progress. Rather than offering a reading of a work inspired by a particular thinker or tradition, each chapter presents a careful reading of a classic or contemporary work in the genre (a novel, short story, film, or television series) to illustrate and explore the themes and concepts of political philosophy.

Chapter 1: Fiction and the Science of Self-Reflection: Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Idols of the Mind

Chapter 2: Utopianism and Realism in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Chapter 3: Frankenstein and the Ugliness of Enlightenment,

Chapter 4: Technology and Anxiety in Melville’s Lightning-Rod Man

Chapter 5: The Head, the Hands, and the Heart: Political Rationalism in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Chapter 6: Technology and Human Nature in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Chapter 7: An Exhortation to Secure Humanity against the Buggers: Ender’s Game

Chapter 8: Seeing and Being Seen in the Kingdom of Ends: On Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, and Star Trek: The Next Generation

Chapter 9: Knowledge of Death in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Chapter 10: Founding a Posthuman Political Order in M. R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts

Chapter 11: Bacon, Transhumanism, and Reflections from the Black Mirror

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