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"""He who controls the spice controls the universe."" Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called ""spice."" To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene Gesserit order, must find their place in the culture of the desert-dwelling Fremen of Arrakis. Paul must contend with both the devious rival House Harkonnen and the gargantuan desert sandworms--the source of the spice. The future of the Imperium depends upon one young man who will need to lead a new jihad to control the universe. Dune and Philosophy recruits twenty-three philosophers to sift wisdom from Frank Herbert's Duniverse, including the first of an expected series of films following Paul ""Muad'Dib"" Atreides and his descendants, captivatingly brought to the big screen in 2021. Substantial yet accessible chapters address philosophical questions including: ● Is it morally right to create a savior? ● Would interplanetary travel change human nature? ● In conflict, how can you stay light years ahead of your opponents? ● Does history repeat itself?"

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"Ariana Delawari is an Afghan American filmmaker, musician, activist, and graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts. A year after 9/11 Ariana found herself on a plane to Afghanistan for the first time and began a ten-year documentation of her father's homeland. We Came Home is her award-winning feature-length directorial debut. The film is a culmination of this documentation, her family story, and the making of her album Lion of Panjshir. Lion of Panjshir was recorded in both Kabul and Los Angeles. Delawari collaborated with a few American band mates and three Afghan elder master musicians. The album was partially produced and mixed by filmmaker David Lynch, and Lynch released the critically acclaimed album on his record label. We Came Home was acquired and released digitally by Time in 2018. Ariana was a performer and speaker at the inaugural TEDx Kabul. She started a grassroots peace initiative called Inspire Peace. Ariana wrote and directed a short surreal docu-musical film that accompanies her second album-both called Entelechy. She also cocreated an app called Afghanistan Connect with Afghan female coding students. She just gave a talk at TEDx Dethorne Women and is currently working on her fourth album. Kevin S. Decker is professor of philosophy at Eastern Washington University near Spokane, Washington. There, he teaches ethics, Continental, and American philosophy. William Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. Irwin's latest book is The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism (2015). Irwin's first book, Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense (1999), was nominated for the American Philosophical Association Young Scholar's Book Prize. Irwin is best known for having originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books with Seinfeld and Philosophy (1999), The Simpsons and Philosophy (2001), and The Matrix and Philosophy (2002). He was editor of these books and then General Editor of the Popular Culture and Philosophy Series through Open Court Publishing. In 2006, Irwin left Open Court to become the General Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which includes Metallica and Philosophy (2007)and Black Sabbath and Philosophy (2012), among other volumes. Irwin first theorized the philosophy and pop culture genre in his article ""Philosophy as/and/of Popular Culture"" in Irwin and Gracia eds. Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture (2006)."

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