Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism

by George A. Gonzalez

Overview

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 fifth dimension (justice) – hard, soft, moral, ethical, yellow, etc. ad infinitum. The normative values from the fifth dimension (justice), in combination with the brain, comprise the human mind. With the issues of climate change, world-wide biosphere destruction, nuclear weapons, international trade regimes, humanity has created the phenomenon of global politics – thereby changing the fifth dimension. The argument in this volume is that the broadcast iterations of Star Trek allow us to comprehend significant aspects of justice and the politics of globalism – created through the advent of science, technology, engineering, etc. The creators of Star Trek hold that nationalism is a psychological pathology and internationalism is rationality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319954103
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2018
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

George A. Gonzalez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. His area of research specialization is political theory and popular culture. He is the author of The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future and The Absolute and Star Trek (both published by Palgrave Macmillan).

Table of Contents

1. Art and Knowledge.- 2. Nationalism as Pathology and Internationalism as Rationalism.- 3. The Progressive Dialectic of Star Trek.- 4. Globalism in Star Trek.- 5. Energy, the Nation-State, and Imperialism.- 6. Star Trek and the Marxist Theory of the State.- 7. Star Trek and Technologies of Empire.- 8. Captain Kirk as a Revolutionary.- 9. Star Trek, Justice, and Technology.- Index.