Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text
Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text

Summary
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This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment. This dialectic is consonant with the notions of revolutionary change, progress postulated by Karl Marx and examined within this text. The book concludes that the only way to hope to avoid a planetary cataclysm is through justice – more specifically, communism as a concept of justice.

Contents
 Introduction
 Analytic Philosophy as Anti-Justice
 Modernity and the Trump Turn
 Neoliberalist World System as Dystopia
 Grievance Studies
 The Metaphysics Debate
 Star Trek and the Marxist Theory of the State
 Art as Liberation
 Conclusion: A Future Only If There Is Justice
 Bibliography
 Index
 About the Author

Star Trek literature