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Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract - We'll Not Go Home Again (Paperback)
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Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract - We'll Not Go Home Again (Paperback)
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Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home
Again' provides a framework for our fascination with the
apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world
genre is clear in movies, novels, and television shows. Even our
political debates over global warming, nuclear threats, and
pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such
events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with
survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The
end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning
again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for
thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that
is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of
the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the
state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or
a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and
Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert
Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the
book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in
which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact
of human dependence and vulnerability.
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