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The Man in the high castle and philosophy : subversive reports from another reality / edited by Bruce Krajewski and Joshua Heter.
LIBRA PS3554.I3 M2636 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 111.
- Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 111
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle.
- Dick, Philip K.
- Man in the high castle (Television program).
- Fascism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court, [2017]
- Summary:
- After the nuclear destruction of Washington DC and the American surrender, the former United States is partitioned between the Empire of Japan and the Third Reich. Americans cope with this grim reality by accommodation, collaboration, and, in a few desperate cases, resistance. The aging Führer Adolf Hitler is now the best hope to avert a nuclear holocaust, while, mysteriously, newsreel videos begin to circulate of an alternate reality, in which America won the war ... Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I. Now wait for last season
- Juliana in Plato's cave
- Say Heil! to architecture
- Saving Hitler's life
- II. The world Dick made
- Cruel optimism and the good Nazi life
- In the neutral zone, a libertarian's home is their (high) castle
- The self-willed and ignorant law
- What if your hero is a fascist?
- III. Captives of unchance
- Is it free will if you pay for it?
- Could the Axis have won the war?
- Defying fate
- IV. Flow my tears, the ethicist said
- Is resistance to fascism terrorism?
- Are we really sure they're wrong?
- But why is our world better?
- Reel lucky
- V. A maze of what-ifs
- Farts, butterflies, and inner truth
- How close is that world to our world?
- When worlds diverge
- VI. A video darkly
- How to deal with reality when we're not built to
- What if evil had won?
- The spirit of abstraction
- After death it can get worse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812699637
- 9780812699630
- OCLC:
- 959536496
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