عنوان

Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract :

شابک

0739142054

شابک

1282713140

شابک

6612713143

شابک

9780739142059

شابک

9781282713147

شابک

9786612713149

شابک اشتباه

0739142038

شابک اشتباه

073917648X

شابک اشتباه

9780739142035

شابک اشتباه

9780739176481

شماره

b787341

عنوان اصلي

Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

"we'll not go home again" /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Claire P. Curtis.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Lanham :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Lexington Books,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (ix, 199 pages)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.

متن يادداشت

Last one out, please turn out the lights : on the beach and the road -- "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" : Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer, the classic post-apocalyptic text -- "Industrious and rational" : John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the rational life post-apocalypse -- Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains: Rousseau and Malevil: the responsibilities of civil life -- "Maybe effort counted" : John Rawls and thought experiments -- "To take root among the stars" : Octavia Butler's parable of the sower and rethinking the social contract -- "We can choose": Octavia Butler's parable of the talents and the meaning of security.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We'll Not Go Home Again provides a framework for our fascination with the apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world genre is clear in movies, novels, and television shows. Even our political debates over global warming, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability"--Provided by publisher.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIL

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

271314

شماره انبار

BC44BB58-E4D7-438D-B9A7-E12E6E7E2F65

عنوان

Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780739142035

موضوع مستند نشده

Apocalypse in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the world in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature and society-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Regression (Civilization) in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science fiction-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science fiction, American-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Survival in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Apocalypse in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

End of the world in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature and society.

موضوع مستند نشده

Regression (Civilization) in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science fiction, American.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science fiction.

موضوع مستند نشده

Survival in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

LIT-- 004020

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Curtis, Claire P.,1965-

تاريخ عمليات

20201207010429.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y