2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Star Trek and Technologies of Empire
Author : George A. Gonzalez
Published in: The Politics of Star Trek
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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The Star Trek franchise outlines the key political tension/disagreement in modernity: pragmatism versus the attaining of justice (as explained in Chapter 2). At the heart of Star Trek is an explicit critique/rejection of pragmatism—that is, an excessive fixation on stability—and the active argument that free, thriving, and stable societies are those that are based on justice, and not on intersubjective agreement (neopragmatism).