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Author Irwin, William

Title The Expanse and Philosophy So Far Out into the Darkness
Published Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (252 p.)
Series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Orbit First From Earth to the Stars -- Chapter 1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse -- Chiaroscuro -- A New, Infinite (And Wonderful?) Universe -- The Abyss Looks Back (Nietzsche Warned You . . .) -- Is It Large Out Here? Or Is It Me? -- Freedom and the Sublime in The Expanse -- Dynamically Sublime -- Howl at the Moon If You Want To -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future -- Does Humanity Have a Future?
The Value of Humanity -- Life and Biodiversity -- Hedging Our Bets Against Extinction Risk -- Future Humans -- What Really Matters -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Humanity's Dilemma before Abaddon's Gate -- Colonizing the System -- Colonizing at the Speed of Light -- Unimaginable Opportunities -- Actual Threats to Our Existence -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse -- The Male is By Nature More Expert at Leading and Other Complete Drivel: Aristotle Tries to Find his Ass With Two Hands and a Fakós
Me and My Husband and My Byronic Hero are Taking Our Giant Helmet and Going Home -- Paint Me Like One of Your Manic Pixie Dream Girls -- Who's the Nasty One Now? Fear Mongering and the Fragile Male Ego -- Conclusion: Whatever I Goddamn Like -- Notes -- Orbit Second Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature? -- Chapter 5 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules-Pierre Mao -- How Can Evil Be Banal? -- A Moral Monster? -- Making Sense of Fanaticism -- Lack of Imagination -- Anyone Can Do It! (Or Can They?) -- Should Mao Be Pardoned? -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche
People of Three Kinds -- "Good and Bad" or "Good and Evil" -- Ressentiment -- Will to Power -- Amos Is No Superman -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Is Amos Evil? -- "I am that guy" -- What Happened to Amos? -- Is Amos Really "That" Guy? -- The Upsides of Amos -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World -- It's Anarchy -- How Philosophy Helps Us Discover Our Values -- When to Fight? -- How to Fight? -- What Promotes Moral Behavior? -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Terrorism and the Churn -- Killing and Making Free -- People Like Us -- A Crossroads in Human History -- Notes
Orbit Third Remember the Cant! -- Chapter 10 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti-Colonial Violence -- Colonization -- The Wretched of the Belt -- The Limits of Peace -- A Cleansing Violence -- A More Human Future -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse -- Patriotism and Nationalism According to Orwell -- Drummer the Patriot, Marco the Nationalist -- Offensive Versus Defensive Attitudes -- Obsession -- Indifference to Reality -- Against Love of Nation -- Notes
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life
Subject Corey, James S. A. Expanse.
SUBJECT Expanse (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017103440
Subject Philosophy on television.
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophy in literature
Philosophy on television
Form Electronic book
Author Corey, James S. A
Nicholas, Jeffery L
ISBN 9781119755616
1119755611
9781119755623
111975562X