Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy With The Matrix Movies
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Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies
Author | : O. Bradley Bassler |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-12-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781137578891 |
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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 and only world we inhabit. Researchers and scholars will find this work an engaging and enlightening examination of reality, via the medium of popular culture and film.
More Matrix and Philosophy
Author | : William Irwin |
Publsiher | : Popular Culture and Philosophy |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : UOM:39015063358751 |
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Explores how the "Matrix" movies deal with a variety of philosophical questions and issues, including cynicism, obfuscation, and postmodernist despair.
The Topological Imagination
Author | : Angus Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674968868 |
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In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
Kant Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics
Author | : O. Bradley Bassler |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783319772912 |
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This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age. Fusing together critical philosophy and visionary poetry, Bassler develops the notion of visionary critique, or paraphysics, as a model for future philosophical endeavor. This philosophical practice is rooted in the concept of the indefinite power associated with the sublime in both Kant and Shelley’s work, to which the notion of the parafinite or indefinitely large is extended in this book.
The Legitimacy of Poetic Reason
Author | : O. Bradley Bassler |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2022-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783031123146 |
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Many philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than accounting for the role reason plays in actu in the process of creative work. Moreover, when in actu accounts of reason are given, they are usually too narrow to describe the sort of high-level creative work that is involved in the composition of poetry or the creation of a scientific theory. This book suggests that the rudiments of a broader account are found in various German Idealist figures, most notably the philosopher-novelist-critic Friedrich Schlegel and the philosophical poet and novelist Friedrich Hölderlin. However, German Idealism generally is subject to Hans Blumenberg ‘s secularization critique which provides a strong prima facie argument that the accounts of poetic reason suggested by Schlegel and Hölderlin are indefensible. This book argues that confronting Blumenberg’s secularization critique and his associated legitimation of modernity with a romantic conception of poetic reason requires revisions on both sides, and that the work of Lacan is especially well-suited to provide the conditions upon which a legitimation of poetic reason can be provided.
The Matrix in Theory
Author | : Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz,Stefan Herbrechter |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042016392 |
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The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurred by the Matrix a sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of "see how low theory (or 'post-theory') has sunk"? Or could the Matrix be one of the "master texts" for something like a renewal for theory as now being mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science, technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to confront "post-theoretical" times. But it is probably fair to say that there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to be "like" the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and which "made" it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising, not less.
Like a Splinter in Your Mind
Author | : Matt Lawrence |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004-07-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405125233 |
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The Matrix and Philosophy
Author | : William Irwin |
Publsiher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0812695011 |
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Presents essays exploring the philosophical themes of the motion picture "The Matrix," which portrays a false world created from nothing but perceptions.