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More Matrix and philosophy : revolutions and reloaded decoded / edited by William Irwin.
- Title
- More Matrix and philosophy : revolutions and reloaded decoded / edited by William Irwin.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Irwin, William, 1970-
- Description
- xiii, 226 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Explores how the "Matrix" movies deal with a variety of philosophical questions and issues, including cynicism, obfuscation, and postmodernist despair.
- Series Statement
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 11
- Uniform Title
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 11.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Scene 1. The sequels : suck-fest or success? The matrix and Plato's cave : why the sequels failed / Lou Marinoff -- The Matrix of control : why The matrix still has us / William Irwin -- Only love is real : Plato, Kant, and The matrix trilogy / James Lawler -- The matrix is the Prozac of the people / Martin Danahay -- "The purpose of life is to end" : Schopenhauerian pessimism, nihilism, and Nietzschean will to power / Mark A. Wrathall -- Scene 2. A splinter in your mind : freedom and reality. Choice, purpose, and understanding : Neo, the Merovingian, and the Oracle / Theodore Schick, Jr. -- Why make a matrix? : and why you might be in one / Nick Bostrom -- Challenging simulacra and simulation : Baudrillard in The matrix / David Detmer -- The music of The matrix : where are we hearing when we hear the future? / Theodore Gracyk -- Scene 3. Global philosophy unplugged. The matrix and Vedanta : journeying from the unreal to the real / Anna Lännström -- The cosmological journey of Neo : an Islamic matrix / Idris Samawi Hamid -- Faith, understanding, and the hidden God of The matrix / William Jaworski -- Neo-orthodoxy : tales of the reluctant messiah, or "your own personal Jesus" / Ben Witherington III -- Scene 4. We're not living in Zion : social and political issues in The matrix. Race matters in The matrix : is Morpheus black? : is race real? / Jorge J.E. Gracia and William Irwin -- Pissin' metal : Columbine, Malvo, and the matrix of violence / Gregory Bassham and Henry Nardone -- Reloaded Revolutions / Slavoj Žižek.
- ISBN
- 0812695720 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004028947
- 9780812695724
- OCLC
- 57202223
- SCSB-10634657
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library