Avatar and philosophy : learning to see /
James Cameron's critically acclaimed movie Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards and received countless accolades for its breath-taking visuals and use of 3D technology. But beyond its cinematic splendour, can Avatar also offer us insights into business ethics, empathy, disability, and t...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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| Σειρά: | Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Seeing Eywa; 1 The Silence of Our Mother; How Can You See, with Jujubes for Eyes?; The Gifts of Our Mother; The Work of Our Mother; Mother Takes Sides; 2 "Eywa Will Provide"; "They're Fly-Bitten Savages Who Live in a Tree"; "You Are Not in Kansas Anymore. You Are on Pandora"; "We Will See If Your Insanity Can Be Cured"; "She's Always Going on About ... the Spirits of Animals"; "The Most Hostile Environment Known to Man"; "I See You, Brother, and Thank You"; 3 The Tantra of Avatar
- Weaving with Eywa"These Dreams of Flying"; Divine, Mind-Blowing Bliss; "Maybe You Should Teach Me"; Tasting the Nectar; Alien Sex and Sandstone Temples; "I Don't Want to Be Late for My Own Party"; Acknowledgments; Part II: Seeing the Na'vi; 4 Learning to See the Na'vi; The Company Man, the Colonel, and the Grunts; Good Observation Isn't Seeing; "I Need to Take Some Samples"; Jake, Empty Cup of the Jarhead Clan; Loving and Learning; 5 It Doesn't Take an Avatar; "A Demon in a False Body"; "I'd Say We Understand Them Just Fine"; "No One Can Teach You to See"; "My Cup Is Empty"; "I Fell in Love"
- "I Didn't Sign Up for This Shit"6 "I See You" through a Glass Darkly; Empathy in Blue; Empathy Versus the Vulcan Mind Meld; Empathy, Tsaheylu, and the iPod; "Get Out of My Head!" Tsaheylu and Mirror Neurons; How the Video Log Helps Us Think: The Extended Mind Hypothesis; Norm Spellman's Homework: The Socially Extended Mind; Nature, Culture, and USB Portals; Part III: Seeing Nature; 7 Seeing the Na'vi Way; "They Killed Their Mother": The High Price of Insanity; Philosophers, Dogs, and Viperwolves; Seeing through the Eye of Eywa; Wild Justice for All; Where There's Life, There's Mind
- "More Connections Than the Human Brain"Last Shadow; 8 They're Not Just Goddamn Trees; Spirit-"Driven" Avatars; The Hungry Na'vi; "Just Goddamn Trees"; The Romantic Alternative: "Feel Her"; The Dialectical Alternative: "All Energy Is Borrowed"; "The Eye of Eywa"; 9 "Everything Is Backwards Now"; Deep Humanity in an Alien Avatar; "Out There Is the True World"; "Lost in the Woods"; "Everything Is Backwards Now"; Part IV: Seeing Our Bodies; 10 The Identity of Avatarsand Na'vi Wisdom; The Continuity of the Self: Your Future Is in His Hands1
- The Body and the Self: Nothing on Earth Could Come between ThemNa'vi Wisdom: An Extreme Taste of Reality; The Identity of Avatars: It's Nothing Personal; 11 "I Got This"; "That Is Just Wrong"; "Maybe I Was Sick of Doctors Telling Me What I Couldn't Do"; Is Jake Just a Gamer?; "Yeah, Baby, I Got This!"; "One Life Ends, Another Begins"; 12 "See the World We Come From"; Not Mad Scientists; Science as Salvation: Über-Na'vi Messiah; Transhumanist Mind Transfer and the Ghost in the Avatar; "Through the Eye of Eywa"; Spiritual Evolution: Transcending the Human; Acknowledgments
