Science fiction, ethics and the human condition. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen, Christine Cornea, editors.
• Editors: Baron, Christian; Halvorsen, Peter Nicolai; Cornea, Christine
• Contents: 1. Introduction: science fiction at a crossroad between ethics and imagination -- 2. The perfect organism: the intruder of the Alien films as a bio-fictional construct -- 3. Science fiction at the far side of technology: Vernor Vinge's singularity thesis versus the limits of AI-research -- 4. A greenhouse on Mars -- 5. Fascinating! popular science communication and literary science fiction: the shared features of awe and fascination and their significance to ideas of science fictions as vehicles for critical debate about scientific enterprises and their ethical implications -- 6. Our serial (and parallel) selves: identity in the age of the transhuman -- 7. Commodified life: post-humanism, cloning and gender in Orphan Black -- 8. Religion in a world of androids and aliens: life and death in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Prometheus -- 9. I am Omega Man: religious repositioning of the secular apocalypse film in I Am Legend -- 10. From isolationism to globalism: an overview of politics and ethics in the Hollywood science fiction film -- 11. Reinventing utopia: politics and ethics of choice in the works of Kim Stanley Robinson -- 12. The final frontier: survival ethics in extreme living conditions as portrayed in Tom Godwin's The Cold Equations and Ridley Scott’s Alien -- 13. The politics of post-apocalypse: ideologies on trial in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids -- 14. On ustopias and finding courage in a hopeless situation.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Subjects: 809.3/8762; Philosophy; Science fiction -- History and criticism; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Ethics in motion pictures; Ethics in literature; Ethics in literature; Ethics in motion pictures; Science fiction; Science fiction films; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Philosophy; Ethics; Knowledge - Discourse; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Ethics; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319565774
• Related ISBNs: 331956577X; 9783319565750; 3319565753
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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