Offering a detailed study of early 20th-century essayist, poet, novelist, political campaigner, and theologian G.K. Chesterton, author Stephen R.L. Clark explores Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context, while also tracing the history of the early science fiction movement.
Offering a detailed study of early 20th-century essayist, poet, novelist, political campaigner, and theologian G.K. Chesterton, author Stephen R.L. Clark explores Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context, while also tracing the history of the early science fiction movement.
Stephen R. L. Clark is a professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, England. He received his D Phil from Oxford in 1973. Dr. Clark served as chief editor at the Journal of Applied Philosophy for eleven years and is now a member of its editorial board, as well as serving on the boards of Religious Studies and the Cambridge University Press series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Well-known for his interest in both religion and science fiction, he has lectured widely in the U.S. and the U.K. He has authored more than sixty scholarly articles, contributed chapters to seventy-five books, edited one book, and written fourteen others, including The Mysteries of Religion, Civil Peace and Sacred Order, How to Live Forever, Animals and their Moral Standing, and Biology and Christian Ethics. His current main work is on the philosopher Plotinus's ethics and psychology.
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Preface ix Introduction 3 Part I: What’s Wrong with Science Fiction? 9 1. The Case against Science Fiction 11 2. In Defense of Science Fiction 18 Part II: The Texts 39 3. The Napoleon of Notting Hill 41 4. The Man Who Was Thursday 50 5. The Ball and the Cross 55 6. The Flying Inn 65 7. The Distributist Rebellion 73 8. The Return of Don Quixote 76 Part III: The Themes 83 9. Nationalists and Jews 85 10. Women and Men 97 11. Medievalism, War, and Men’s Ideals 104 12. Distributism and Anarchy 115 13. Darwinism, Scientific and Social 124 14. Animals and the Royal Animal 144 15. Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Virtue 161 16. Miracles and Religion 174 Conclusion: Thinking Backward 187 Notes 201 Index 241
Preface ix Introduction 3 Part I: What’s Wrong with Science Fiction? 9 1. The Case against Science Fiction 11 2. In Defense of Science Fiction 18 Part II: The Texts 39 3. The Napoleon of Notting Hill 41 4. The Man Who Was Thursday 50 5. The Ball and the Cross 55 6. The Flying Inn 65 7. The Distributist Rebellion 73 8. The Return of Don Quixote 76 Part III: The Themes 83 9. Nationalists and Jews 85 10. Women and Men 97 11. Medievalism, War, and Men’s Ideals 104 12. Distributism and Anarchy 115 13. Darwinism, Scientific and Social 124 14. Animals and the Royal Animal 144 15. Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Virtue 161 16. Miracles and Religion 174 Conclusion: Thinking Backward 187 Notes 201 Index 241
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