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Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos

Autor Charles S. Cockell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2022
On the Moon or Mars, where even the oxygen you breathe is made in a manufacturing process controlled by someone else, can you be free? In Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos, Charles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestrial despotisms, he suggests that the construction of free societies is possible using uniquely blended and reformulated classical liberal ideas for the space frontier. Considering politics, science, engineering, art, education, prisons, and other facets of society, this book lays out the general ethos and culture around which settlements might be constructed to secure the establishment and flourishing of freedom in the cosmos.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192866240
ISBN-10: 0192866249
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 10 line figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 166 x 242 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.92 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This is a brilliant and compelling book, written with great knowledge and understanding.
If you have ever thought about the future of humanity in outer space, this book should be very high on your list.
Can classical liberal political theories prevent tyranny and despotism in space? This is the central question that is compellingly examined in this fascinating book.
This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in the broader philosophical questions of human space exploration.
This is an important book for building our future in space.
Interplanetary Liberty offers an engaging exploration of liberal political thought applied to human space expansion, and in so doing provides a much-needed examination of the scope and fitness of democratic principles of governance for prospective space societies.

Notă biografică

Charles S. Cockell is Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His scientific research includes the study of life in extreme environments, the habitability of extraterrestrial environments, and human space exploration. He has worked for NASA and the British Antarctic Survey and spent many seasons in Antarctica and the High Arctic. He received his doctorate in molecular biophysics from the University of Oxford and his BSc from the University of Bristol. As well as over 300 scientific papers and numerous popular science books, including Space on Earth, which made the case for the indivisible links between space exploration and environmentalism, he has written a number of papers and edited books on the subject of extraterrestrial liberty.