This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.
This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.
Derek Thiess teaches in the department of English at Georgia Gwinnet College.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Namshub of History Chapter 1: The Forgetful Reader Chapter 2: Forgetting the Scientific Revolution Chapter 3: Trivial Literature and the Techno-Pagan Nazi Chapter 4: The Da Vinci Code Phenomenon and Orthodoxy Chapter 5: Madness and the Text Conclusions Bibliography About the Author
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Namshub of History Chapter 1: The Forgetful Reader Chapter 2: Forgetting the Scientific Revolution Chapter 3: Trivial Literature and the Techno-Pagan Nazi Chapter 4: The Da Vinci Code Phenomenon and Orthodoxy Chapter 5: Madness and the Text Conclusions Bibliography About the Author
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