Patrick Parrinder
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2015
9781137456779
Utopian Literature and Science
From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781137456779
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781137456779
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Preface<br/>Acknowledgements <br/>1. Introduction <br/>PART I: SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION AND INTERVENTION<br/>2. Beyond the Telescope: From Astronomy to (Dystopian) Fiction <br/>3. A Sylph under the Microscope: Science and Romance <br/>4. Satanism and Genetics: Haldane's Daedalus and Its Begetters <br/>PART II: THE HUMAN ANIMAL<br/>5. Eugenics, Utopia, Eudemonics: Bellamy, Galton and Morris <br/>6. Strains of the Non-Human: The Coming Race, A Crystal Age, Erewhon <br/>7. Gorilla Warfare: Darwin, Freud, and the Stone Age Romance <br/>8. From Human to Animal: Wells and Kafka <br/>PART III: MODERN UTOPIAS AND POST-HUMAN WORLDS<br/>9. War is Peace: Conscription and Mobilisation in the Modern Utopia <br/>10. Towards the Singularity? ?apek's R.U.R. and its Times <br/>11. Olaf Stapledon and the Shape of Things to Come <br/>12. The Expulsion of the Poets <br/>Notes <br/>Bibliography <br/>Index<br/></p>