LEADER 02639nam 2200613 450 001 9910787907203321 005 20230124191339.0 010 $a0-7391-9618-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000578350 035 $a(EBL)1874263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001381855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12508865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11437572 035 $a(PQKB)10751381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1874263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1874263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11027741 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL665398 035 $a(OCoLC)897378650 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000578350 100 $a20150310h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRelativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader $ereading science fiction and historiography /$fDerek Thiess 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (175 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-9617-0 311 $a1-322-34116-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Forgetful Reader; 2 Forgetting the Scientific Revolution; 3 Trivial Literature and the Techno-Pagan Nazi; 4 The Da Vinci Code Phenomenon and Orthodoxy; 5 Madness and the Text; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the Author 330 $aThis book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.

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