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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

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Author

D. E. Wittkower

Publisher

Open Court Publishing Company

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613300959

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Engineering