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, nucle...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability |
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contents | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index Introduction : Thinking the end of the world -- 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 |
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spelling | Curtis, Claire P. 1965- Verfasser (DE-588)112315936X aut Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract "we'll not go home again" Claire P. Curtis First paperback edition Lanham Lexington Books 2012 ix, 199 Seiten 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index Introduction : Thinking the end of the world -- 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 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, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1950-2005 gnd rswk-swf Apocalypse in literature Social contract in literature Science fiction, American / History and criticism Science fiction / History and criticism End of the world in literature Regression (Civilization) in literature Survival in literature Literature and society / History / 20th century Apocalypse in literature fast End of the world in literature fast Literature and society fast Regression (Civilization) in literature fast Science fiction fast Science fiction, American fast Social contract in literature fast Survival in literature fast Geschichte Weltuntergang Motiv (DE-588)4112551-4 gnd rswk-swf Sozialvertrag (DE-588)4077620-7 gnd rswk-swf Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 s Weltuntergang Motiv (DE-588)4112551-4 s Sozialvertrag (DE-588)4077620-7 s Geschichte 1950-2005 z DE-604 |
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