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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.45; 791.4572
• Altri autori: EberlJason T
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Battlestar Galactica and philosophy
• ISBN: 1-282-34197-9; 9786612341977; 0-470-49353-4; 0-470-69646-X; 0-470-69573-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996209982103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.