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The creators of Star Trek dedicated virtually an entire series (Voyager) to show how pragmatism and neo-pragmatism lead to undesirable/unstable/catastrophic outcomes. Conversely, the series depicts how ethics and principles are key to (yes!) achieving success in the face of dire/difficult circumstances.
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Robert Danisch, Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007) (Danisch 2007); Larry A. Hickman, Pragmatism as Post-Modernism: Lessons from John Dewey (New York: Forham University Press, 2007) (Hickman 2007); Alan Malachowski, The New Pragmatism (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010) (Malachowski 2010); Michael Bacon, Pragmatism (Cambridge: Polity, 2012) (Bacon 2012).
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Daniel Berthold-Bond, Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought, and History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989) (Berthold-Bond 1989).
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Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001), xii (Menand 2001).
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Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981) (Rorty 1981); Michael Bacon, Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007) (Bacon 2007); Neil Gross, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) (Gross 2008).
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“Crossover” (1994—Deep Space Nine).
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John F. Burns, “U.N. Panel To Assess Drone Use,” New York Times, January 25, 2013, A4 (Burns 2013); Lloyd C. Gardner, Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare (New York: New Press, 2013) (Gardner 2013); Thom Shanker, “Simple, Low-Cost Drones a Boost for U.S. Military,” New York Times, January 25, 2013, A12 (Shanker 2013); Declan Walsh, and Ihsanullan Tipu Mehsud, “Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes Cited in Report,” New York Times, October 22, 2013, A1 (Walsh and Mehsud 2013).
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George A. Gonzalez, The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), chap. 10 (Gonzalez 2015).
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Michael Walzer, Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory, David Miller, ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), chap. 1 (Walzer 2007).
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Daniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neuman, Harry Potter and International Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) (Nexon and Neuman 2006); Jason Dittmer, Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012) (Dittmer 2012); George A. Gonzalez, “Justice League Unlimited and the Politics of Globalization,” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 45, no. 123 (2016): 5-13 (Gonzalez 2016b).
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Gonzalez, G.A. (2017). Star Trek: Voyager: Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism as False Infinities. In: The Absolute and Star Trek. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47794-7_8
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