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Philip K. Dick and philosophy : do androids have kindred spirits? / edited by D.E. Wittkower

Published
Chicago : Open Court, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 355 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Wittkower, D. E., 1977-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Title Page; Praise; Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch; Through a Screen Darkly; 01 -- Hollywood Doesn't Know Dick; We Can Conceive It for Ourselves Wholesale; Free Will at the Box Office; Determinism's Bounty on Free Will; Skepticism for Fun and Profit; What's So Bad about Determinism?; What's So Bad about Skepticism?; A Happy Ending?; 02 -- A Quintessence of Dust; Show Me What You're Made Of; Have You Ever Retired a Human by Mistake?; The Lung-less, All-Penetrating Masterful World-Silence; Do You Think Androids Have Souls?; The Cardinal Mystery of Creation.
Summary
Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture-both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau plus cult favorites such as A Scanner Darkly, Imposter, Next, Screamers, and Paycheck and works revealing his powerful influence, such as The Matrix and Inception . With the much anticipated forthcoming publication in 2011 of volume 1 of Exegesis, his journal of spiritual visions and paranoic inve.
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ISBN
0812697391 (electronic bk.)
9780812697391 (electronic bk.)
9780812697346 (trade pbk. ; alk. paper)
0812697340 (trade pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283300958
9781283300957
9786613300959
6613300950
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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