Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-9185-0 • Hardback • February 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-4985-9187-4 • Paperback • March 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-4985-9186-7 • eBook • February 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
George A. Gonzalez is professor of political science at the University of Miami.
Chapter One:Capitalism and the Absolute
Chapter Two:Analytic Philosophy and Star Trek
Chapter Three: Abraham Lincoln as Globalist
Chapter Four:The Politics of Race and Class Oppression in Star Trek
Chapter Five:Popular 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
Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism is an interesting study that illustrates how people can gain an analytical understanding of political reasons through art.
— VoegelinView
Dr. 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
George 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