Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos

Charles S. Cockell (Professor, Professor, Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 July 2022
Pages
464
ISBN
9780192866240

Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos

Charles S. Cockell (Professor, Professor, Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK)

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.

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