Claire P. Curtis

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract

We'll Not Go Home Again

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictional accounts of the end of the world rarely explore the end of humanity; instead they present the end of what we now know and the opportunity to start over. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home Again' contends that postapocalyptic fiction reflects one of our most basic political motivations and uses these fictional accounts to explore the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, and a Rousseauian lens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176481
• ISBN-10: 073917648X
• Artikelnr.: 35340168

Autorenporträt

By Claire P. Curtis

Inhaltsangabe

1 Contents 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1 Last One Out,
Please Turn Out the Lights: On the Beach and The Road Chapter 5 2
"...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short": Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer,
the classic postapocalyptic text Chapter 6 3 "Industrious and Rational":
John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the Rational Life Postapocalypse Chapter 7 4
"Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains": Rousseau and Malevil: the
Responsibilities of Civil Life Chapter 8 5 "Maybe Effort Counted": John
Rawls and Thought Experiments Chapter 9 6 "To take root among the stars":
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Rethinking the Social Contract
Chapter 10 7 "We can choose": Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents and
the Meaning of Security 11 Epilogue 12 Bibliography