The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future

ISBN-13: 9781137549402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 219 str.

George A. Gonzalez

Opis

The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era: pragmatism vs. justice; universalism vs. traditionalism; empire vs. consensual polity; environmentalism vs. modernity. George A. Gonzalez details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, and in so doing argues that Star Trek offers an indispensable intellectual and analytical contribution to our understanding of the politics of the modern era.

Recenzje

"Gonzalez (politics, Univ. of Miami) explores how the Star Trek franchise makes an intellectual/analytical contribution to understanding politics of the modern era. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." (P. D. Hopkins, Choice, Vol. 53 (12), August, 2016)

O autorze

George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA. He is the author of numerous books including Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital (2009), Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States (2012), and Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic (2013). He is co-editor of Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking (1997), which won the 1998 Lynton Caldwell Book Award, given by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy section of the American Political Science Association. Professor Gonzalez's work in the field of Star Trek Studies has been published in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.