- This article describes a book by Jason T. Eberl. For a general analysis of the series's philosophical aspects, see Philosophy in Battlestar Galactica. For the book from Open Court Publishing, see Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?.
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| Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There A book of the Blackwell Publishing line | ||
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| Book No. | 1 | |
| Author(s) | Jason T. Eberl | |
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| No. of Pages | 224 | |
| Published | January 29, 2008 | |
| ISBN | 1405178140 | |
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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There (Blackwell Publishing, December 2007, ISBN 1405178140), edited by philosophy professor Jason T. Eberl, is a collection of several essays dealing with philosophical aspects of the Re-imagined Series, and an entry in Blackwell's Philosophy and Pop Culture Series.
According to the original call for abstracts, the essays are to be "philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader".[1]
Contents
Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets.
- Erik D. Baldwin: "How to be Happy after the End of the World"
- Robert Sharp: "When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising"
- J. Robert Loftis: "“What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?"
- Jason P. Blahuta: "The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet"
I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?.
- Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey: “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons"
- Amy Kind:" “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons"
- Jerold J. Abrams: "Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War"
- Brian Willems: "When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death"
Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons.
- Randall M. Jensen: "The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few"
- Andrew Terjesen: "Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?"
- George A. Dunn: "Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil"
- David Roden: "Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice"
The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home.
- Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines: "“I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning"
- Taneli Kukkonen: "God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies"
- David Kyle Johnson: "“A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom"
- Eric J. Silverman: "Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge"
Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives.
- James McRae: "Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance"
- Elizabeth F. Cooke: "“Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope"
- Sarah Conly: "Is Starbuck a Woman?"
- David Koepsell: "Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation"[2]
See also
- "'I'm Sharon, but a Different Kind of Sharon': The Identity of Cylons", by Amy Kind. An essay from the book provided by Jason T. Eberl.
References
- ↑ Call for Abstracts (backup available on Archive.org) .
- ↑ PhilosopherJedi (November 2007). Cylons in America (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 28 January 2007.
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