LEADER 03614nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910144415703321 005 20170810195501.0 010 $a1-282-34197-9 010 $a9786612341977 010 $a0-470-49353-4 010 $a0-470-69646-X 010 $a0-470-69573-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000687440 035 $a(EBL)470517 035 $a(OCoLC)609849454 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289700 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289700 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404651 035 $a(PQKB)10170382 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470517 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000687440 100 $a20070917d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBattlestar Galactica and philosophy$b[electronic resource] $eknowledge here begins out there /$fedited by Jason T. Eberl 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aThe Blackwell philosophy and popculture series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-7814-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBATTLESTAR 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 327 $a7 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 327 $a14 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 330 $aThis thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galacticatelevision series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers. 410 0$aBlackwell philosophy and popculture series. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a791.45 676 $a791.4572 701 $aEberl$b Jason T$0940271 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910144415703321 996 $aBattlestar Galactica and philosophy$92209498 997 $aUNINA