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Science Fiction and Political Philosophy
From Bacon to Black Mirror
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- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- An Introduction to Science Fiction and Political Philosophy
- 1 Fiction and the Science of Self-Reflection
- 2 Utopianism and Realism in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- 3 Frankenstein and the Ugliness of Enlightenment
- 4 Technology and Anxiety in Melville’s “Lightning-Rod Man”
- 5 The Head, the Hands, and the Heart
- 6 Technology and Human Nature in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
- 7 An Exhortation to Secure Humanity against the Buggers
- 8 Seeing and Being Seen in the Kingdom of Ends
- 9 Knowledge of Death in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
- 10 Founding a Posthuman Political Order in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
- 11 Bacon, Transhumanism, and Reflections from the Black Mirror
- Index
- About the Contributors
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