Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos

Cockell, Charles S.

ISBN 10: 0192866249 / ISBN 13: 9780192866240

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2022

Beschreibung

Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0192866249
• ISBN-13: 9780192866240
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.