Considered a sign of the coming of age of video gamesas an artistic medium, the award–winning BioShock franchise coversvast philosophical ground. BioShock and Philosophy: IrrationalGame, Rational Book presents expert reflections byphilosophers (and Bioshock connoisseurs) on this criticallyacclaimed and immersive fan–favorite. Reveals the philosophical questions raised through the artisticcomplexity, compelling characters and absorbing plots of thisground–breaking first–person shooter (FPS) Explores what BioShock teaches the gamer about gaming,and the aesthetics of video game storytelling Addresses a wide array of topics including Marxism, propaganda,human enhancement technologies, political decision–making, freewill, morality, feminism, transworld individuality, and vendingmachines in the dystopian society of Rapture Considers visionary game developer Ken Levine s depictionof Ayn Rand s philosophy, as well as the theories ofAristotle, de Beauvoir, Dewey, Leibniz, Marx, Plato, and othersfrom the Hall of Philosophical Heroes INDICE: Hacking Into This Book (Introduction)Luke CuddyLevel 1 Research Bonus: Increased Wisdom Capacity1: BioShock s Meta–Narrative: What BioShock Teaches the Gamer about GamingCollin Pointon2: The Value of Art in BioShock: Ayn Rand, Emotion, and ChoiceJason Rose3: SHODAN vs. The Many or Mind vs. The BodyRobert M. Mentyka4: The Cage is Somber: A Feminist Understanding of ElizabethCatlyn OrigitanoTears, Time, and Reality5: Rapture in a Physical World: Did Andrew Ryan Choose the Impossible?James Cook6: Would You Kindly Bring us the Girl and Wipe Away the Debt: Free Will and Moral Responsibility in BioShock InfiniteOliver Laas7: BioShock as Plato s CaveRoger Travis8: BioShock Infinite and Transworld Individuality: Identity Across Space and TimeCharles Joshua Horn9: Shockingly Limited: Escaping Columbia s God of NecessityScott Squires and James McBainThe Union and the Sodom Below10: The Bindings are There as a Safeguard: Sovereignty and Political Decisions in BioShock InfiniteRick Elmore11: Propaganda, Lies, and Bullshit in BioShock s RaptureRachel McKinnon12: The Vox Populi Group, Marx, and Equal Rights for AllTyler DeHaven and Chris HendricksonThe Circus of Values13: Infinite Lighthouses, Infinite Stories: BioShock and the Aesthetics of Video Game StorytellingLászló Kajtár14: Have You Ever Been To Rapture? BioShock as an Introduction to PhenomenologyStefan Schevelier15: Evolve today! Human Enhancement Technologies in the BioShock UniverseSimon Ledder16: Vending Machine Values: Buying Beauty and Morality in BioShockMichael J. Muniz
- ISBN: 978-1-118-91586-8
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 02/06/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés