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Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract : "we'll not go home again" /
"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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.