Dune and philosophy : minds, monads, and Muad'Dib

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Author:

Decker, Kevin S., editor.

ISBN:

9781119841425

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.

Contents:

Front Matter -- SONGS OF MUAD'DIB. Liberating Women's Bodies / Kara Kennedy -- What Do Zendaya's Blue Eyes Really Mean? / Edwardo Pérez -- The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of Life / Ethan Mills -- Messiahs, Jihads, and God Emperors / Greg Littmann -- (Re)defining Masculinity and Femininity in Villeneuve's Dune / Edwardo Pérez -- ARRAKIS AWAKENING. Spiritual Realm Adaptation / AM Houot -- Thinking Like a Desert / Zach Vereb -- Humans, Machines, and an Ethics for Technology in Dune / Zachary Pirtle -- THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB. "Thou Shalt Make a Human Mind in the Likeness of a Machine" / Tomi Kokkonen, Ilmari Hirvonen, Matti Mäkikangas -- Herbert's Gholas / Jennifer Mundale -- Psychological Expanses of Dune / Matthew Crippen -- Thatched Cottages at Cordeville / Kevin S Decker -- THE LENS OF TIME. Should the Bene Gesserit Be in Charge? / Greg Littmann -- Prisoners of Prophecy / William Peden -- Time versus History / Aaron Irvin -- THE HUMANITY OF MUAD'DIB. Secher Nbiw and the Child's Right to an Open Future / Kenneth R Pike -- The Spice of Life / Luke Hillman -- "Less Than a God, More Than a Man" / Alexandru Dragomir -- That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Shai-Hulud / Steve Bein -- LESSONS OF THE GREAT REVOLT. The God Emperor and the Tyrant / James RM Wakefield -- Lessons from Islamic Philosophy on the Politics of Paul Atreides / Galipcan Altinkaya, Mehmet Kuyurtar -- Why Settle for Hobbes's Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor? / RS Leiby -- The Mind at War / Sam Forsythe -- Index

Abstract:

Explore the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune in all its philosophical richness "He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene Gesserit order, must find their place in the culture of the desert-dwelling Fremen of Arrakis. Paul must contend with both the devious rival House Harkonnen and the gargantuan desert sandworms-the source of the spice. The future of the Imperium depends upon one young man who will need to lead a new jihad to control the universe. "Dune and Philosophy" recruits 23 philosophers to sift wisdom from Frank Herbert's Duniverse, including the first of an expected series of films following Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides and his descendants, captivatingly brought to the big screen by Denis Villeneuve in 2021. Part of the New Wave of science fiction of the 60s and 70s, Dune is characterized by literary experimentation with shifting styles, differing narrative points of view, and with the "psychedelic" culture of the period. In Dune, the long-term strategies and intricate plots of warring Great Houses are driven not just by Heighliner spacecraft and lasguns, but also by mind-expanding drugs, psychic powers, dystopian themes, race memories, and martial arts allowing control of the mind and the body. Substantial yet accessible chapters address philosophical questions including: - Is it morally right to create a savior? - Would interplanetary travel change human nature? - What is the deeper meaning of desert ecologies? - In conflict, how can you stay light years ahead of your opponents? - Are there some drugs we would want to be addicted to? - Does history repeat itself? Tens of thousands of years into an intergalactic future, can humans endure or will we sacrifice what is most important in our humanity for power, glory, religion and of course, the control of the spice? Dune and Philosophy sets an intellectual course through sand and stars to find out.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Personal Subject:

Herbert, Frank. Dune series.

Herbert, Frank-Philosophy.

Herbert, Frank

Title Subject:

Dune (Motion picture : 1984)

Dune (Motion picture : 2021)

Dune series (Herbert, Frank)

Subject Term:

Dune (Imaginary place) -- Philosophy.