This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.
This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.
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.
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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
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
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