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Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies
O. Bradley Bassler
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Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: What is the Matrix? Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper diagnosis of modern philosophical conditions. In contrast to the contemporary focus upon cognitive science and a commitment to the distinction between appearance and reality, this book helps readers to explore the argument that such abstractions are inevitably displaced by a more concrete distinction between dreaming and waking, with the Matrix as the real ... Read more
This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: What is the Matrix? Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging from simulation, proof and action to value, culture and mythology, offering a progressively deeper diagnosis of modern philosophical conditions. In contrast to the contemporary focus upon cognitive science and a commitment to the distinction between appearance and reality, this book helps readers to explore the argument that such abstractions are inevitably displaced by a more concrete distinction between dreaming and waking, with the Matrix as the real ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137578884
SKU
V9781137578884
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About O. Bradley Bassler
O. Bradley Bassler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. He is the author of The Pace of Modernity: Reading with Blumenberg (2012) and The Long Shadow of the Parafinite: Three Scenes from the Prehistory of a Concept (2015).
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