1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144415703321

Titolo

Battlestar Galactica and philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge here begins out there / / edited by Jason T. Eberl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-34197-9

9786612341977

0-470-49353-4

0-470-69646-X

0-470-69573-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

The Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Altri autori (Persone)

EberlJason T

Disciplina

791.45

791.4572

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002676609707536

Autore

Dorfles, Gillo

Titolo

L'estetica del mito : da Vico a Wittgenstein / Gillo Dorfles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Milano] : Mursia, [1990]

ISBN

8842504645

Descrizione fisica

156 p. ; 18 cm.

Collana

Gum ; 174

Soggetti

Vico, Giambattista

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia