Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract : "we'll not go home again"
Record details
- ISBN: 6612713143
- ISBN: 9786612713149
- ISBN: 9781282713147
- ISBN: 1282713140
- ISBN: 073917648X
- ISBN: 9780739176481
- ISBN: 0739142038 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780739142035 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0739142054
- ISBN: 9780739142059
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 199 p.)
remote - Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Last one out, please turn out the lights : On the beach and The road -- "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" : Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer, the classic post-apocalyptic text -- "Industrious and rational" : John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the rational life post-apocalypse -- Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains: Rousseau and Malevil: the responsibilities of civil life -- "Maybe effort counted" : John Rawls and thought experiments -- "To take root among the stars" : Octavia Butler's parable of the sower and rethinking the social contract -- "We can choose" : Octavia Butler's parable of the talents and the meaning of security. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |