Justice and Popular Culture
Star Trek as Philosophical Text
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0241-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0241-1 (ISBN)
This book examines how humanity faces of the absence of a coherent, universal conception of justice. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the ecology.
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment. This dialectic is consonant with the notions of revolutionary change, progress postulated by Karl Marx and examined within this text. The book concludes that the only way to hope to avoid a planetary cataclysm is through justice—more specifically, communism as a concept of justice.
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment. This dialectic is consonant with the notions of revolutionary change, progress postulated by Karl Marx and examined within this text. The book concludes that the only way to hope to avoid a planetary cataclysm is through justice—more specifically, communism as a concept of justice.
George A. Gonzalez is professor of political science at the University of Miami.
Chapter One: Analytic Philosophy as Anti-Justice
Chapter Two: Modernity and the Trump Turn
Chapter Three: Neoliberalist World System as Dystopia
Chapter Four: Grievance Studies
Chapter Five: The Metaphysics Debate
Chapter Six: Star Trek and the Marxist Theory of the State
Chapter Seven: Art as Liberation
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 232 mm |
Gewicht | 376 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0241-7 / 1793602417 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0241-1 / 9781793602411 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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