Worlds Built to Fall Apart - Versions of Philip K. Dick

"Despite his enduring popularity, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) has long been a marginal figure in American literature, even in the science fiction genre he helped revolutionize. Offering a major new perspective on the author, influential French philosopher David Lapoujade orients Dick within philosophy and draws connections to a wide variety of other thinkers and artists, revealing his oeuvre to comprise a profound reality defined by artifice, precarity, and control"--

List of contents

Contents
Translator’s Preface
Introduction: On Delirium
1. Worlds
2. Causality
3. The Thinking Thing
4. On the Fantastic
5. Entropy and Regression
6. Those Who Possess Worlds
7. Artificial Worlds
8. The Digital Human (or, What Is an Android?)
9. Hunting and Paranoia
10. Between Life and Death
11. Bricolage (or, The Random Variable)
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

David Lapoujade is professor of philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, whose numerous books include The Lesser Existences: Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual and Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (both from Minnesota).
Erik Beranek is a writer and editor and has translated works by Jacques Rancière, Étienne Souriau, Michel Foucault, and David Lapoujade.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Beranek, David Lapoujade, David/ Beranek Lapoujade
• Assisted by: Erik Beranek (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2024
• EAN: 9781517914615
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1461-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Univocal
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies