Expanse and Philosophy

JEFFERY L. NICHOLAS is Associate Professor at Providence College, Rhode Island, and Research Associate at the Center for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He is co-founder and Executive Secretary of the International Society for MacIntyre Enquiry. His publications include Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation and Reason, Tradition, and the Good: MacIntyre’s Tradition Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.

• Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List xAcknowledgements xvForeword xviiIntroduction xixJeffery L. NicholasFirst Orbit: From Earth to the Stars 11 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse 3Michael J. O’Neill2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future 13Margarida Hermida3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate 25Leonard Kahn4 Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in The Expanse 33S. W. SondheimerSecond Orbit: Is It the Protomolecule, or Just Human Nature? 455 The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and Jules-Pierre Mao 47R. S. Leiby6 Amos Meets Nietzsche 57Pankaj Singh7 Is Amos Evil? 65Diana Sofronieva8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World 74Matthew D. Atkinson and Darin DeWitt9 Terrorism and the Churn 84Trip McCrossinThird Orbit: Remember the Cant! 9110 The Inners Must Die: Marco Inaros and the Righteousness of Anti-Colonial Violence 93Sid Simpson11 Being Beltalowda: Patriotism and Nationalism in The Expanse 102Caleb McGee Husmann and Elizabeth Kusko12 Anarchy in the OPA: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Bare Life 111Lisa Wenger Bro13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero? 125Jeffery L. NicholasFourth Orbit: They Still Dream 13314 “We had a garden and we paved it”: The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene 135Diletta De Cristofaro15 We Can Be Gods: Remorseless Logic or Shared Humanity 145Max Gemeinhardt16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars 151James S. J. SchwartzFifth Orbit: Tilting at Windmills 16117 How to Be a Hero: Hannah Arendt and Naomi Nagata on Making and Doing Politics 163Tiago Cerqueira Lazier18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata: Intersectionality and the Impossible Choices of Resistance 171Guilel Treiber19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse 179Claire Field and Stefano Lo ReSixth Orbit: Riding the Roci 18720 The Long Dark Night of The Hat: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and His Headwear 189S. W. Sondheimer21 Between Worlds: The Multiplicitous Subjectivity of Naomi Nagata 195Eric Chelstrom22 Language Games in The Expanse: If a Lion Could Showxa, We Would Not Pochuye Him 203Andrew MagrathAppendix: The Expanse Episodes List 215Index 217