Science fiction and political philosophy from Bacon to Black Mirror
"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 politic...
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books,
[2020].
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| Series: | Politics, literature, & film.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to science fiction and political philosophy / Timothy McCranor
- Fiction and the science of self-reflection: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and the idols of the mind / Erin A. Dolgoy and Kimberly Hurd Hale
- Utopianism and realism in Shakespeare's The Tempest / Paul T. Wilford and Nicholas Anderson
- Frankenstein and the ugliness of enlightenment / Jeff J. S. Black
- Technology and anxiety in Melville's "Lightning-Rod Man" / Tobin L. Craig
- The head, the hands, and the heart: Political rationalism in Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Damien K. Picariello
- Technology and human nature in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World / Nivedita Bagchi
- An exhortation to secure humanity against the Buggers: Ender's Game / Steven Michels and Danielle Sottosanti
- Seeing and being seen in the kingdom of ends: On Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, and Star Trek: The Next Generation / Daniel J. Kapust
- Knowledge of death in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go / Constance C. T. Hunt
- Founding a posthuman political order in M. R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts / Erin A. Dolgoy and Kimberly Hurd Hale
- Bacon, Transhumanism, and reflections from the Black Mirror / David N. Whitney and Steven Michels.