This thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues
arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television
series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to
Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and
their Cylon pursuers.
What's the point of living after your world has been destroyed?
This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel's
critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica. More than just an
action-packed "space opera," each episode offers a
dramatic character study of the human survivors and their Cylon
pursuers as they confront existential, moral, metaphysical,
theological, and political crises.
This volume addresses some of the key questions to which the
Colonials won't find easy answers, even when they reach Earth:
Are Cylons persons? Is Baltar's scientific worldview superior
to Six's religious faith? Can Starbuck be free if she has a
special destiny? Is it ethical to cut one's losses and leave
people behind? Is collaboration with the enemy ever the right move?
Is humanity a "flawed creation"? Should we share the
Cylon goal of "transhumanism"? Is it really a big deal
that Starbuck's a woman?
Ausstattung/Bilder: 1. Auflage 2008. 288 S. 229 mm
Seitenzahl: 267
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Best.Nr. des Verlages: 1A405178140
Englisch
Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 14mm
Gewicht: 376g
ISBN-13: 9781405178143
ISBN-10: 1405178140
Best.Nr.: 22960667
"Blackwell's Philosophy and PopCulture series sets itself the remarkable task of making philosophy "relevant," lamenting the subject's ongoing "public relations problem" and resolving to change things for the better. ...[I]f this volume is indicative of the series as a whole then I will happily review each and every one, for I found it to be, by and large, a stimulating and worthwhile read... Philosophy, it seems, is no longer under the guardianship of office-bound professors fluent in Latin but ignorant of popular culture. Jason T. Eberl's "ragtag fleet" of contributors has helped in some small way to redress the balance, and I for one applaud their efforts." (Claire Graham, Kaleidoscope, October 2008)<br/><br/>"The essays are ... quite good, and to me they seem to satisfactorily serve the purpose of introducing fans of BSG to classic and contemporary philosophical problems and questions, and even professional philosophers might learn a thing or two. The essays in the anthology are both accessible and quite easy to read, and can be commended to those interested in philosophy and Battlestar Galactica." (Metapsychology, October 2008)<br/><br/>"The writers are well versed in their subjects ... .The book is most effective at making the reader rethink what they thought they knew." (Neo-opsis)
"Blackwell's Philosophy and PopCulture series sets itself the remarkable task of making phi losophy "relevant," lamenting the subject's ongoing "public relations problem" and resolving to change things for the better. ...[I]f this volume is indicative of the series as a whole then I will happily review each and every one, for I found it to be, by and large, a stimulating and worthwhile read... Philosophy, it seems, is no longer under the guardianship of office-bound professors fluent in Latin but ignorant of popular culture. Jason T. Eberl's "ragtag fleet" of contributors has helped in some small way to redress the balance, and I for one applaud their efforts." (Claire Graham, Kaleidoscope, October 2008) "The essays are ... quite good, and to me they seem to satisfactorily serve the purpose of introducing fans of BSG to classic and contemporary philosophical problems and questions, and even professional philosophers might learn a thing or two. The essays in the anthology are both accessible and quite easy to read, and can be commended to those interested in philosophy and Battlestar Galactica." (Metapsychology, October 2008) "The writers are well versed in their subjects ... .The book is most effective at making the reader rethink what they thought they knew." (Neo-opsis)
"Blackwell's Philosophy and PopCulture series sets itself the remarkable task of making philosophy "relevant," lamenting the subject's ongoing "public relations problem" and resolving to change things for the better. ...(I)f this volume is indicative of the series as a whole then I will happily review each and every one, for I found it to be, by and large, a stimulating and worthwhile read... Philosophy, it seems, is no longer under the guardianship of office-bound professors fluent in Latin but ignorant of popular culture. Jason T. Eberl's "ragtag fleet" of contributors has helped in some small way to redress the balance, and I for one applaud their efforts." (Claire Graham, Kaleidoscope, October 2008) "The essays are ... quite good, and to me they seem to satisfactorily serve the purpose of introducing fans of BSG to classic and contemporary philosophical problems and questions, and even professional philosophers might learn a thing or two. The essays in the anthology are both accessible and quite easy to read, and can be commended to those interested in philosophy and Battlestar Galactica." (Metapsychology, October 2008) "The writers are well versed in their subjects ... .The book is most effective at making the reader rethink what they thought they knew." (Neo-opsis)
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His research interests focus on bioethics, metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. He has co-edited, with Kevin S. Decker, Star Wars and Philosophy (2005) and Star Trek and Philosophy (forthcoming).
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Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol
"There Are Those Who Believe ..."
Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets
Erik D. Baldwin, How to be Happy After the End of the World
Robert Sharp, When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising
J. Robert Loftis, "What a Strange Little Man": Baltar the Tyrant?
Jason P. Blahuta, The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet
Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?
Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey, "And They Have a Plan": Cylons as Persons
Amy Kind, "I'm Sharon, but I'm a Different Sharon": The Identity of Cylons
Jerold J. Abrams, Embracing the "Children of Humanity": How to Prevent the Next Cylon War
Brian Willems, When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death
Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons
Randall M. Jensen, The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few
Andrew Terjesen, Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?
George A. Dunn, Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil
David Roden, Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice
Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home
Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines, "I Am an Instrument of God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning
Taneli Kukkonen, God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies
David Kyle Johnson, "A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again": Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom
Eric J. Silverman, Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge
Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives
James McRae, Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance
Elizabeth F. Cooke, "Let It Be Earth": The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope
Sarah Conly, Is Starbuck a Woman?
David Koepsell, Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation
There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors
The Fleet's Manifest
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