Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract - We'll Not Go Home Again

Informationen zum Autor By Claire P. Curtis Klappentext Fictional accounts of the end of the world rarely explore the end of humanity; instead they present the end of what we now know and the opportunity to start over. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home Again' contends that postapocalyptic fiction reflects one of our most basic political motivations and uses these fictional accounts to explore the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, and a Rousseauian lens. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Contents 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1 Last One Out, Please Turn Out the Lights: On the Beach and The Road Chapter 5 2 "...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short": Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer, the classic postapocalyptic text Chapter 6 3 "Industrious and Rational": John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the Rational Life Postapocalypse Chapter 7 4 "Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains": Rousseau and Malevil: the Responsibilities of Civil Life Chapter 8 5 "Maybe Effort Counted": John Rawls and Thought Experiments Chapter 9 6 "To take root among the stars": Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Rethinking the Social Contract Chapter 10 7 "We can choose": Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents and the Meaning of Security 11 Epilogue 12 Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Claire P. Curtis
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9780739176481
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7648-1
• No. of pages: 199
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Social forecasting, future studies, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Political science and theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form