Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Fiction and the Science of Self-Reflection: Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Idols of the Mind
Chapter 2: Utopianism and Realism in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Chapter 3: Frankenstein and the Ugliness of Enlightenment,
Chapter 4: Technology and Anxiety in Melville’s Lightning-Rod Man
Chapter 5: The Head, the Hands, and the Heart: Political Rationalism in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Chapter 6: Technology and Human Nature in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Chapter 7: An Exhortation to Secure Humanity against the Buggers: Ender’s Game
Chapter 8: Seeing and Being Seen in the Kingdom of Ends: On Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, and Star Trek: The Next Generation
Chapter 9: Knowledge of Death in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Chapter 10: Founding a Posthuman Political Order in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
Chapter 11: Bacon, Transhumanism, and Reflections from the Black Mirror