“A Fourfold Vision: Nature Religion and the Wages of Scientism in Ursula K. Le Guin's ‘Newton's Sleep'”

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1991 short story ‘Newton's Sleep' begins in a utopic society that escaped the environmental and social calamity of a near-future Earth and created an enlightened culture on a space station. The group, led by a scientific elite, pride themselves on eradicating the i...

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Главный автор: Newell, Catherine L. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: MDPI [2018]
В: Religions
Год: 2018, Том: 9, Выпуск: 9, Страницы: 1-14
Другие ключевые слова:B Gaia Hypothesis
B biophilia
B Scientism
B Romantic movement
B nature religion
B Enlightenment
B technological nature
B Sublime
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Итог:Ursula K. Le Guin's 1991 short story ‘Newton's Sleep' begins in a utopic society that escaped the environmental and social calamity of a near-future Earth and created an enlightened culture on a space station. The group, led by a scientific elite, pride themselves on eradicating the irrational prejudices and unempirical mentality that hamstringed Earth; but chaos blossoms as the society struggles with the reappearance of religious intolerance, and becomes confused by an outbreak of mass hallucinations of the Earth they left behind. This narrative trope of the necessity of nature for the survival of humanity—physically, mentally, and spiritually—represents a new and relatively common allegory in contemporary science fiction in an era distinguished by separation from the natural world.
ISSN:2077-1444
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel9090279