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Politics of Star Trek
Justice, War, and the Future
Inbunden, 2015
1626 kr
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The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, arguing that Star Trek offers an indispensable contribution to our …
Corporate Power and the Environment
The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy
Inbunden, 2001
1563 kr
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Environmental policy is broadly viewed as an oasis of democracy, unspoiled by crass capitalism and undominated by corporate interests. This book counters that view. The focus of Corporate Power and the Environment focuses on how U.S. economic elites—corporate decisionmakers and other individuals of …
Corporate Power and the Environment
The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy
Häftad, 2001
559 kr
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Environmental policy is broadly viewed as an oasis of democracy, unspoiled by crass capitalism and undominated by corporate interests. This book counters that view. The focus of Corporate Power and the Environment focuses on how U.S. economic elites—corporate decisionmakers and other individuals of …
Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking
Controversies in Achieving Sustainability
Av Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Presents alternative and often opposing viewpoints on the major national and international environmental controversies that will be with us well into the twenty-first century.As a contribution to public policy and to help educate students about natural resource issues, this book identifies the …
Politics of Air Pollution
Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion
Häftad, 2006
455 kr
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Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental …
American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands
Inbunden, 2016
1641 kr
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Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America …
American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands
E-bok, 2016
2243 kr
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Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being ''hydrofracked'' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being ''processed'' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America …
Politics of Star Trek
Justice, War, and the Future
E-bok, 2015
2069 kr
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The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, arguing that Star Trek offers an indispensable contribution to our …
Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
Häftad, 2019
622 kr
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Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something …
Popular Culture as Art and Knowledge
A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines …
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
Av George A. Gonzalez, Lee Trepanier
Inbunden, 2019
1139 kr
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Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described as the measurable effects of the normative values of the absolute and the laws of physics (also ostensibly a product of the …
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism
Av George A. Gonzalez, Lee Trepanier
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. Causality can be described as the measurable effects of the normative values of the absolute and the laws of physics (also ostensibly a product of the …
Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment
Beauty, Justice, and Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2023
471 kr
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Drawing on Hegel’s model of aesthetics and beauty to analyze the Star Trek franchise, this book puts justice at the center of the "beauty"—and entertainment value—of popular culture. The author, George A. Gonzalez, shows that plot—revolving around justice and injustice—often determines the artistic …
Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture
Greed, Hate, Star Wars, and Star Trek
Inbunden, 2024
471 kr
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In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long twentieth century. Using the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, he postulates that within the Anti-Enlightenment mode of thought, history is a cycle …
Justice and Popular Culture
Star Trek as Philosophical Text
Inbunden, 2019
1310 kr
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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 …
Popular Culture, Conspiracy Theory, and the Star Trek Text
Inbunden, 2020
1139 kr
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The forward progress of society is not automatic and should not be taken for granted. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 can be viewed as ending his effort to deploy American prestige and power to forward change worldwide. Today, there are political forces seeking to stop …
Metaphysics versus Scientism
Star Trek, Star Wars, and the Science of Justice
Inbunden, 2026
471 kr
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George A. Gonzalez demonstrates that Georg Hegel (1770-1831) is the philosopher of the Enlightenment and of science. Analytic philosophers consider themselves philosophers of science. Gonzalez shows that Hegel philosophically grounds the Enlightenment, whereas the “science” of analytic philosophers …
Absolute and Star Trek
Inbunden, 2017
660 kr
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This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to …
Absolute and Star Trek
E-bok, 2016
877 kr
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This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history. Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to …
Absolute and Star Trek
Häftad, 2018
660 kr
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This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to …
Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
Inbunden, 2018
824 kr
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The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality. The absolute (reality) is composed of five dimensions – height, length, width, time, and justice. The five dimensions operate dialectically, and the normative values of reality inhere within the …
Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
E-bok, 2018
1059 kr
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The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality. The absolute (reality) is composed of five dimensions – height, length, width, time, and justice . The five dimensions operate dialectically, and the normative values of reality inhere within the …
Politics of Air Pollution
Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion
Inbunden, 2005
1087 kr
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Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental …
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital
Inbunden, 2009
1111 kr
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Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.This far-reaching and penetrating study sheds new light on the role of the United States in global warming. Shortly after the Second World War, urban development in the …
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.This far-reaching and penetrating study sheds new light on the role of the United States in global warming. Shortly after the Second World War, urban development in the …
Energy and Empire
The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States
Häftad, 2013
406 kr
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Reveals the role played by political and economic elites in the privileging of civilian commercial nuclear energy over other options, such as solar, in the United States after 1945.What set the United States on the path to developing commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s, and what led to the …
Energy and Empire
The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States
Inbunden, 2012
1120 kr
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Reveals the role played by political and economic elites in the privileging of civilian commercial nuclear energy over other options, such as solar, in the United States after 1945.What set the United States on the path to developing commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s, and what led to the …
Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, …
Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Inbunden, 2013
1087 kr
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Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, …
Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
Inbunden, 2018
1120 kr
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Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something …
