Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib

Contents
Contibutors: Navigators, Mentats, Fremen, and Bene Gesserit
Introduction: “He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe” • Kevin S. Decker
A Brief Dune Series Timeline
Songs of Muad’Dib: Culture and Religion in Dune
	1 Liberating Women’s Bodies: Feminist Philosophy and the Bene Gesserit of Dune • Kara Kennedy
	2 What Do Zendaya’s Blue Eyes Really Mean? • Edwardo Pérez
	3 The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of Life • Ethan Mills
	4 Messiahs, Jihads, and God Emperors: Should Humanity Just Give Up Religion? • Greg Littmann
	5 (Re)defining Masculinity and Femininity in Villeneuve’s Dune • Edwardo Pérez
Arrakis Awakening: Science and Ecology in Dune
	6 Spiritual Realm Adaptation: Arrakeen Spice, Terrestrial Psychedelics, and Technique • A.M. Houot
	7 Thinking Like a Desert: Environmental Philosophy and Dune • Zach Vereb
	8 Humans, Machines, and an Ethics for Technology in Dune • Zachary Pirtle
The Wisdom of Muad’Dib: Mind, Memory, and Interpretation in Dune
	9 “Thou Shalt Make a Human Mind in the Likeness of a Machine”: Imitation, Thinking Machines, and Mentats • Tomi Kokkonen, Ilmari Hirvonen, and Matti Mäkikangas
	10 Herbert’s Gholas: Mystical Legends and Scientific Inspiration • Jennifer Mundale
	11 Psychological Expanses of Dune: Indigenous Philosophy, Americana, and Existentialism • Matthew Crippen
	12 Thatched Cottages at Cordeville: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Art in Dune • Kevin S. Decker
The Lens of Time: Freedom, History, and Evil in Dune
	13 Should the Bene Gesserit Be in Charge? • Greg Littmann
	14 Prisoners of Prophecy: Freedom and Foreknowledge in the Dune Series • William Peden
	15 Time versus History: A Conflict Central to Herbert’s Dune • Aaron Irvin
The Humanity of Muad’Dib: Morality and Ethics in Dune
	16 Secher Nbiw and the Child’s Right to an Open Future • Kenneth R. Pike
	17 The Spice of Life: Hedonism and Nozick in the Dune Universe • Luke Hillman
	18 “Less Than a God, More Than a Man”: Is It Morally Wrong to Make a Kwisatz Haderach? • Alexandru Dragomir
	19 That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Shai-Hulud: Self-overcomingin Nietzsche, Hinduism, and Dune • Steve Bein
Lessons of the Great Revolt: Politics and War in Dune
	20 The God Emperor and the Tyrant: The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga • James R.M. Wakefield
	21 Lessons from Islamic Philosophy on the Politics of Paul Atreides • Galipcan Altinkaya and Mehmet Kuyurtar
	22 Why Settle for Hobbes’s Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor? • R.S. Leiby
	23 The Mind at War: Conflict and Cognition in Frank Herbert’s Dune • Sam Forsythe
Index