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UNINA9910144415703321 |
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Titolo |
Battlestar Galactica and philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge here begins out there / / edited by Jason T. Eberl |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-34197-9 |
9786612341977 |
0-470-49353-4 |
0-470-69646-X |
0-470-69573-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AND PHILOSOPHY; Contents; Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol; "There Are Those Who Believe . . ."; Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets; 1 How To Be Happy After the End of the World; 2 When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising; 3 "What a Strange Little Man": Baltar the Tyrant?; 4 The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet; Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?; 5 "And They Have a Plan": Cylons as Persons; 6 "I'm Sharon, But I'm a Different Sharon": The Identity of Cylons |
7 Embracing the "Children of Humanity": How to Prevent the Next Cylon War8 When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death; Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons; 9 The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few; 10 Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?; 11 Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil; 12 Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice; Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home; 13 "I Am an Instrument of God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning |
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14 God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies15 "A Story that is Told Again, and Again, and Again": Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom; 16 Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge; Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives; 17 Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance; 18 "Let It Be Earth": The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope; 19 Is Starbuck a Woman?; 20 Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation; There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors; The Fleet's Manifest |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galacticatelevision series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers. |
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