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Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text

Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text

Gonzalez, George A.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1793602417
ISBN13: 9781793602411
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jul 18 2019
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment. This dialectic is consonant with the notions of revolutionary change, progress postulated by Karl Marx and examined within this text. The book concludes that the only way to hope to avoid a planetary cataclysm is through justice--more specifically, communism as a concept of justice.

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