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Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism

Beyond the Golden Rule

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-36762-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Erscheinungstermin: 24.06.2014
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Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137367624
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-36762-4
  • Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
  • Erscheinungstermin: 24.06.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2014. Auflage 2014
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 4139 g
  • Seiten: 232
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Gomel, E.

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Why Do We Need Aliens? PART I: CONFRONTATION 1. 'The Force That Gives Us Meaning': Alien Invasion and Search for Redemption 2. Idylls of the Same: Soviet SF, Cosmic Humanism, and Escape from History PART II: ASSIMILATION 3. The Contagion of Posthumanity: Alien Infestation and the Paradox of Subjectivity 4. Human Skins, Alien Masks: Allegories of Postcolonial Guilt PART III: TRANSFORMATION 5. The Human Trinity: What Makes Us Other? 6. Stanislaw Lem and the Holocaust of Humanism Conclusion Bibliography Index