Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge Here Begins Out There
Redaktion: Eberl, Jason T.

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Produktbeschreibung

PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE "The contributors to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy strive to make things relevant to fans of the show, and they put their information out in a way that is accessible to folks who wouldn't know Heidegger from Heineken." Green Man Review, Spring 2009 "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 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444356571
• Artikelnr.: 38305722

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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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"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)

"The contributors to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy strive to make things relevant to fans of the show, and they put their information ou t in a way that is accessible to folks who wouldn't know Heidegger from Heineken." (Green Man Review, Spring 2009)

"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)