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Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

Author : D. E. Wittkower
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812697340
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Philip K. Dick and Philosophy written by D. E. Wittkower and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 investigations, Dick is fast becoming a major influence in the world of popular spirituality and occult thinking. In Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Who Adjusts the Adjustment Bureau?, twenty Dick fans and professional thinkers confront the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by Dick's mind-blowing fantasies. Is there an alien world behind the everyday reality we experience? If androids can pass as human, should they be given the same consideration as humans? Do psychotics have insights into a mystical reality? Would knowledge of the future free us or enslave us? This volume will also include Dick's short story "Adjustment Team," on which The Adjustment Bureau is based. Philip K. Dick and Philosophy explores the ideas of Philip K. Dick in the same way that he did: with an earnest desire to understand the truth of the world, but without falsely equating earnestness with a dry seriousness. Dick's work was replete with whimsical and absurdist presentations of the greatest challenges to reason and to humanity?paradox, futility, paranoia, and failure?and even at his darkest times he was able to keep some perspective and humor, as for example in choosing to name himself ?Horselover Fat' in VALIS at the same time as he relates his personal religious epiphanies, crises, and delusions. With the same earnest whimsy, we approach Philip K. Dick as a philosopher like ourselves?one who wrote almost entirely in thought-experiments and semi-fictional world-building, but who engaged with many of the greatest questions of philosophy throughout the Euro-American tradition. Philip K. Dick and Philosophy has much to offer for both serious fans who have read many of his novels and stories, and for those who may have just recently learned his name, and realized that his work has been the inspiration for several well-known and thought-provoking films. Most chapters start with one or more of the movies based on Dick's writing. From here, the authors delve deeper into the issues by bringing in philosophers' perspectives and by bringing in Dick's written work. The book invites the reader with a casual familiarity with Dick to get to know his work, and invites the reader with little familiarity with philosophy to learn more. At the same time, we have new perspectives and challenging connections and interpretations for even the most hard-core Dick fans, even though we never speak to ?insiders” only. To maximize public interest, the book prominently addresses the most widely-known films, as well as those with the most significant fan followings: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Adjustment Bureau. Along with these ?big five” films, a few chapters address his last novels, especially VALIS, which have a significant cult following of their own. There are also chapters which address short stories and novels which are currently planned for adaptation: Radio Free Albemuth (film completed, awaiting distribution), The Man in the High Castle (in development by Ridley Scott for BBC mini-series), and ?King of the Elves” (Disney, planned for release in 2012).

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679747871
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-01-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”—Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations in fiction. For, as he wrote about androids and virtual reality, schizophrenic prophets and amnesiac gods, Dick was also posing fundamental questions: What is reality? What is sanity? And what is human? This unprecedented collection of Dick’s literary and philosophical writings acquaints us with the astonishing range and eloquence of his lifelong inquiry. The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick includes autobiography, critiques of science fiction, and dizzyingly provocative essays such as “The Android and the Human” and “If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others.” Readers will also find two chapters of a proposed sequel to Dick’s award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle and selections from the metaphysical Exegesis that inspired his classic VALIS. Witty, erudite, and exploding with intellectual shrapnel, this is the last testament of an American original. This collection confirms Dick’s reputation as one of the foremost imaginative thinkers of the twentieth century. “A wide-ranging selection of free-wheeling philosophical essays, and journal entries; humorous, thoughtful speeches; and plot scenarios. . . . For both casual and serious Dick fans, The Shifting Realities unearths some gems.”—Boston Phoenix

Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

Author : D. E. Wittkower
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812697391
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Philip K. Dick and Philosophy written by D. E. Wittkower and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 publication in 2011 of volume 1 of Exegesis, his journal of spiritual visions and paranoic investigations, Dick is fast becoming a major influence in the world of popular spirituality and occult thinking. In Philip K. Dick and Philosophy thirty Dick fans and professional thinkers confront the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by Dick’s mind-blowing fantasies. Is there an alien world behind the everyday reality we experience? If androids can pass as human, should they be given the same consideration as humans? Do psychotics have insights into a mystical reality? Would knowledge of the future free us or enslave us? This volume will also include Dick's short story "Adjustment Team," on which The Adjustment Bureau is based. Philip K. Dick and Philosophy explores the ideas of Philip K. Dick in the same way that he did: with an earnest desire to understand the truth of the world, but without falsely equating earnestness with a dry seriousness. Dick’s work was replete with whimsical and absurdist presentations of the greatest challenges to reason and to humanity—paradox, futility, paranoia, and failure—and even at his darkest times he was able to keep some perspective and humor, as for example in choosing to name himself ‘Horselover Fat’ in VALIS at the same time as he relates his personal religious epiphanies, crises, and delusions. With the same earnest whimsy, we approach Philip K. Dick as a philosopher like ourselves—one who wrote almost entirely in thought-experiments and semi-fictional world-building, but who engaged with many of the greatest questions of philosophy throughout the Euro-American tradition. Philip K. Dick and Philosophy has much to offer for both serious fans and those who have recently learned his name, and realized that his work has been the inspiration for several well-known and thought-provoking films. Most chapters start with one or more of the movies based on Dick’s writing. From here, the authors delve deeper into the issues by bringing in philosophers' perspectives and by bringing in Dick’s written work. The book invites the reader with a casual familiarity with Dick to get to know his work, and invites the reader with little familiarity with philosophy to learn more. New perspectives and challenging connections and interpretations for even the most hard-core Dick fans are also offered. To maximize public interest, the book prominently addresses the most widely-known films, as well as those with the most significant fan followings: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Adjustment Bureau. Along with these “big five” films, a few chapters address his last novels, especially VALIS, which have a significant cult following of their own. There are also chapters which address short stories and novels which are currently planned for adaptation: Radio Free Albemuth (film completed, awaiting distribution), The Man in the High Castle (in development by Ridley Scott for BBC mini-series), and “King of the Elves” (Disney, planned for release in 2012).

The Philosophy of Science Fiction

Author : James Edward Burton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474227686
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science Fiction written by James Edward Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in their attempts to address the need for salvation in (and from) an era of accelerated mechanization, in which humans' capacity for destroying or subjugating the living has attained a planetary scale. The philosopher and the science fiction writer come together to meet the contradictory imperatives of a realist outlook-a task which, arguably, philosophy and science fiction could only ever adequately undertake in collaboration. Their respective approaches meet in a focus on the ambiguous status of fictionalizing, or fabulation, as simultaneously one of mechanization's most devastating tools, and the possibility of its undoing. When they are read together, the complexities and paradoxes thrown up by this ambiguity, with which both Bergson and Dick struggle on their own, open up new ways to navigate ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of salvation. The result is at once an original reading of both thinkers, a new critical theory of the socio–cultural, political and ethical function of fictionalizing, and a case study in the strange affinity, at times the uncanny similarity, between philosophy and science fiction.

Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

Author : D. E. Wittkower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786613300959
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Philip K. Dick and Philosophy written by D. E. Wittkower and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-time collection assembles his nonfiction writings (the bulk of which either have never before been published or have appeared only in obscure and out-of-print publications) - essays, journals, speeches, and interviews.

The Philosophy of Science Fiction

Author : James Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474227698
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science Fiction written by James Burton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy

Author : Bruce Krajewski
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812699688
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy written by Bruce Krajewski and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an “alternate present” (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern US occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small “neutral zone” between them. A theme of the story is that in this alternative world there is eager speculation, fueled by the illicit newsreel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, about how the world would have been different if America had won the war. In The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy, twenty-two professional thinkers look at philosophical issues raised by this ongoing enterprise in “alternative history.” One question is whether it really made a profound difference that the Allies won the war, and exactly what differences in everyday life we may expect to arise from an apparent historical turning point. Could it be that some dramatic historical events have only superficial consequences, while some unnoticed occurrences lead to catastrophic results? Another topic is the quest for truth in a world of government misinformation, and how dissenting organizations can make headway.

The Philosophy of Science Fiction

Author : James Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780766423
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science Fiction written by James Burton and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If philosophy desires to understand the world, science fiction dreams of saving it. Yet what if these were not two separate hopes, but intertwined within a general human tendency, namely, the capacity to fictionalize? The Philosophy of Science Fiction brings together two figures for whom our ability to make fictions a reality, to conceive of, and even believe in the impossible, is at the root both of our attempts to understand the universe, and of our struggles to survive within it. Henri Bergson, renowned for his philosophical investigations of time, memory and evolution, and Philip K. Dick, author of some of the most highly praised science fiction of the twentieth century, were born some 70 years apart into drastically different cultural milieu. Yet for both, modern humanity faces a critical threat in the combination of its own ancient tendency to mechanize itself and its environment with the explosive material power unleashed by modern technology. Moreover, they refute the idea, implicit in so many areas of modern political, moral, scientific and religious thinking, that we must choose between materialism and idealism, between rationality and faith.On the contrary, both find in the power of fictionalizing, new possibilities of salvation in a world seemingly abandoned by the gods.

The World According to Philip K. Dick

Author : A. Dunst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414596
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The World According to Philip K. Dick written by A. Dunst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.

How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Author : Aaron Barlow
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411633490
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick written by Aaron Barlow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays on the writing and ideas of Philip K. Dick presented in eight chapters. This in-depth look at the philosophies behind Dick's SF and mainstream novels is based on Barlow's 1988 doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa.

The Greatest Works of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Works of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition brings to you 34 exciting Sci-Fi stories by Philip K. Dick in one convenient volume. These tales are guaranteed to thrill you with their exhilarating plots and exciting twists and turns! Contents: Second Variety The Variable Man Adjustment Team The Hanging Stranger The Eyes Have It The Skull Mr. Spaceship Beyond the Door Beyond Lies the Wub The Golden Man The Gun The Defenders Tony and the Beetles The Crystal Crypt Upon the Dull Earth Piper in the Woods Of Withered Apples The Unreconstructed M The Turning Wheel The Last of the Masters James P. Crow Prominent Author Small Town Survey Team Sales Pitch Breakfast at Twilight The Crawlers Exhibit Piece Meddler Souvenir Progeny Strange Eden Human Is Foster, You're Dead

Best of Science Fiction from Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Namaskar Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of Science Fiction from Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a mind-bending journey through the realms of science and philosophy with "Best of Science: Exploring the Mind of Philip K. Dick" by Philip K. Dick. Immerse yourself in the visionary world of Dick's imagination as he delves into the mysteries of consciousness, reality, and the nature of existence. As you delve into the pages of this captivating collection, prepare to be transported to alternate dimensions, dystopian futures, and mind-bending realities. Through his groundbreaking works of science fiction, Dick offers readers a thought-provoking exploration of the human condition and the nature of reality itself. But amidst the twists and turns of Dick's narratives, one question arises: What profound insights and philosophical questions does Dick's work provoke, and how do they challenge our understanding of the world? Explore the depths of Dick's mind and the boundaries of reality with him as your guide, as he navigates themes of identity, free will, and the nature of consciousness in his groundbreaking science fiction. Are you ready to embark on a journey of intellectual discovery and exploration through the mind of Philip K. Dick? Engage with Dick's visionary tales, allowing yourself to be captivated by the richness of his imagination and the depth of his philosophical insights. Don't miss the opportunity to experience the brilliance of "Best of Science" by Philip K. Dick. Dive into this extraordinary collection now, and discover the mind-bending worlds and thought-provoking ideas that await within. Seize the chance to explore the boundaries of science and philosophy. Purchase your copy of "Best of Science" today and embark on a journey of intellectual discovery and exploration that will expand your mind and challenge your perceptions.

Worlds Built to Fall Apart

Author : David Lapoujade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517914615
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Built to Fall Apart written by David Lapoujade and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophically analyzing the work of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and peculiar, science fiction authors Despite his enduring popularity, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)--whose short stories and novels were adapted into or influenced many major films and television shows, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Truman Show, and The Man in the High Castle--has long been a marginal figure in American literature, even in the science fiction genre he helped revolutionize. Here, an influential French philosopher offers a major new perspective on an author who was known as much for his eccentricities and excesses as for his writing. For David Lapoujade, it is precisely the many ways in which Dick's works seem to hover on the brink of losing all touch with reality that make him such a singular figure, both as a sci-fi author and as a thinker of contemporary life. In Worlds Built to Fall Apart, Lapoujade defines sci-fi as a way of thinking through the creation of worlds and argues that Dick's way of doing so is by creating worlds that fall rapidly to pieces. Whatever his mechanism to bring this about (drugs or madness, alien satellite transmissions or encroaching parallel universes), the effect is always to reveal reality to be a construction, in which certain people determine what appears as real to the rest of us. Orienting Dick within philosophy and drawing connections to a wide variety of other thinkers and artists, this remarkable reading shows how he proposes unstable, fluctuating futures in which tinkering with reality has become the best means of resisting total control. Engaging with most of Dick's published works, as well as with several of his essays and his notorious psychic autobiography The Exegesis, Lapoujade hones in on the "war of the psyches" that underlies Dick's critique of reality. In doing so, he puts Dick's work in conversation with a vast array of subjects--from cybernetics to schizoanalysis, and from Pop art to David Lynch, J. G. Ballard, and William Burroughs--revealing Dick's oeuvre to comprise a profound reality defined by artifice, precarity, and control.

I Think I Am

Author : Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816666652
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book I Think I Am written by Laurence A. Rickels and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aside from its perfect fit of critic and subject, Laurence A. Rickels's book provides the most thorough and exhaustive reading of Philip K. Dick's literary work that exists. He goes through all the novels literally, both the science fiction works and the so-called mainstream novels Dick did not publish in his lifetime. The reader of science fiction should welcome a book like this, which is both knowledgeable of the SF tradition tradition and creatively analytical. I could not put this book down once I began to read it".---George Slusser, University of California, Riverside --

The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick

Author : Umberto Rossi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486295
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick written by Umberto Rossi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick’s writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick’s body of work.

Philosophy and Blade Runner

Author : Timothy Shanahan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137412291
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Blade Runner written by Timothy Shanahan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, free will, morality, God, death, and the meaning of life. The result is a novel analysis of the greatest science fiction film of all time and a unique contribution to the philosophy of film.