Science Fiction and Political Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

From Bacon to Black Mirror
Redaktion: McCranor, Timothy; Michels, Steven

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498586443
• Artikelnr.: 58621450

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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