Science Fiction After 1900
Author: Brooks Landon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1136761195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Brooks Landon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1136761195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Michael Sheehan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1351731378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2000. This series brings together significant journal articles appearing in the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays to provide a basis for understanding the established terrain and new ground. This volume introduces the undergraduate to a significant body of the periodical literature on the subject of national and international security.
Author: Philip Pettit
Publisher: Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0190904917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments in response, sufficient to put them within reach of ethical concepts. Without any planning, they would have more or less inevitably evolved a way of using such concepts to articulate desirable patterns of behavior and to hold themselves and one another responsible to those standards. Sooner or later, they would have entered ethical space. While this central claim is developed as a thesis in conjectural history or genealogy, the aim of the exercise is philosophical. Assuming that it explains the emergence of concepts and practices that are more or less equivalent to ours, the story offers us an account of the nature and role of morality. It directs us to the function that ethics plays in human life and alerts us to the character in virtue of which it can serve that function. The emerging view of morality has implications for the standard range of questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and enables us to understand why there are divisions in normative ethics like that between consequentialist and Kantian approaches.
Author: James Holden
Publisher: Inkermen Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two experimental essays engaging with the science fiction concepts of 'Alien' and 'Star'.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 638
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of State
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher T. Fan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2024-04-23
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 023155978X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation’s children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers’ works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers’ attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.”
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9042028548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If philosophy addresses concrete ethical challenges, then what shifts in basic concepts must be made to the discipline in the darkness of our genocidal world? What anti-genocidal strains are in Western philosophy? Are we “really” rejects and/ or “still of intrinsic worth” when we fail our excellence tests? How are we represented and how do we participate in representations? Are representational forms historical in origin and development? Is genocide indissolubly linked to our degradation and destruction of animals? Can one slaughter and eat one’s partners in a social bond? If so, what does this tell us about the socio-political world we have formed? Is there a deep center—metacide—in our culture from which genocide receives its impulse? These are some of the pivotal questions addressed in the thirteen thought-provoking essays of this volume.