McCranor / Michels Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

From Bacon to Black Mirror
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4985-8644-3
Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, Literature, & Film

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCranor, Timothy

Michels, Steven

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Nicholas

Bagchi, Nivedita

Black, Jeffrey J.S.

Craig, Tobin L.

Dolgoy, Erin A.

Hale, Kimberly Hurd

Hunt, Constance C. T.

Kapust, Daniel

McCranor, Timothy

Michels, Steven

Picariello, Damien K.

Sottosanti, Danielle

Whitney, David

Wilford, Paul T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Michels is associate provost and professor of political science at Sacred Heart University. Timothy McCranor is doctoral student in the Political Science Department at Boston College.