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The Philosophy of Science Fiction - Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick (Hardcover)
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction - Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick (Hardcover)
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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.
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