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Science fiction, alien encounters, and the ethics of posthumanism : beyond the golden rule / Elana Gomel.
Van Pelt Library PN3433.5 .G664 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gomel, Elana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 232 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Contents:
- Why do we need aliens?
- "The force that gives us meaning" : alien invasion and search for redemption
- Idylls of the same : Soviet SF, cosmic humanism, and escape from history
- The contagion of posthumanity : alien infestation and the paradox of subjectivity
- Human skins, alien masks : allegories of postcolonial guilt
- The human trinity : what makes us other?
- Stanislaw Lem and the holocaust of humanism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137367624
- 1137367628
- OCLC:
- 885145073
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