{"product_id":"popular-culture-and-the-political-values-of-neoliberalism-9781498591850","title":"Popular Culture and the Political Values of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReality 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 absolute). Humans are special insofar as they access the higher aspects of the Absolute  altruism, compassion, love, humor, science, engineering, etc. The Absolute also contains what can be considered the less attractive values or impulses: greed, lust for power, hate, self-centeredness, conceit, etc. Predicating society on what I deem the lower (spirits) aspects of the absolute (most prominently, greed) results in personal, social dysfunction and ultimately the end of civilization. Conversely, a society based on justice is stable and vibrant. Justice is a classless society, free of gender and ethnic biases. My argument is based on popular culture  especially the Star Trek franchise. One imp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Gonzalez’s work serves as an extraordinarily capacious yet succinct guide to political philosophy that uses Star Trek and other popular culture texts as a base and an allegorical framework. -- David Greven, author of Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek and Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Gonzalez has written a thought provoking ideological analysis of widely watched television series such as Star Trek, House of Cards, Black List, and Breaking Bad to document how popular culture has narrated the decline of U.S. democracy and the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism over the last 25 years. Gonzalez’s book directly challenges previous scholarly writing on the topic. He not only debunks widely accepted (and misguided) interpretations of these television series, but he demonstrates that serious political theory can be excavated from popular culture and intellectuals who denigrate it miss an important aspect of how ideology is conveyed and criticized in otherwise quotidian outlets. He uses Star Trek in particular to articulate a realistic alternative future based on a classless, egalitarian, democratic, and post-scarcity form of communism. -- Clyde W. Barrow, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One:\tCapitalism and the Absolute Chapter Two:\tAnalytic Philosophy and Star Trek Chapter Three: Abraham Lincoln as Globalist Chapter Four:\tThe Politics of Race and Class Oppression in Star Trek Chapter Five:\tPopular Culture on Good, Evil, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Chapter Six: Clones and the Politics of the Mind in Star Wars and Star Trek Chapter Seven: Art as Knowledge: Who Leads the American World System Chapter Eight: Popular Culture and Trump Politics","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040861454679,"sku":"9781498591850","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498591850.jpg?v=1750948101","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/popular-culture-and-the-political-values-of-neoliberalism-9781498591850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}