More Matrix and philosophy
Subtitle: revolutions and reloaded decoded
By: edited by William Irwin.
Contributors: Irwin, William, 1970-
Series: Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 11
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Matrix (Motion picture); Matrix revolutions; Matrix reloaded
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scene 1. The sequels : suck-fest or success? The matrix and Plato's cave : why the sequels failed / Lou Marinoff; title: The Matrix of control : why The matrix still has us / William Irwin; title: Only love is real : Plato, Kant, and The matrix trilogy / James Lawler; title: The matrix is the Prozac of the people / Martin Danahay; title: "The purpose of life is to end" : Schopenhauerian pessimism, nihilism, and Nietzschean will to power / Mark A. Wrathall; title: Scene 2. A splinter in your mind : freedom and reality. Choice, purpose, and understanding : Neo, the Merovingian, and the Oracle / Theodore Schick, Jr.; title: Why make a matrix? : and why you might be in one / Nick Bostrom; title: Challenging simulacra and simulation : Baudrillard in The matrix / David Detmer; title: The music of The matrix : where are we hearing when we hear the future? / Theodore Gracyk; title: Scene 3. Global philosophy unplugged. The matrix and Vedanta : journeying from the unreal to the real / Anna Lännström; title: The cosmological journey of Neo : an Islamic matrix / Idris Samawi Hamid; title: Faith, understanding, and the hidden God of The matrix / William Jaworski; title: Neo-orthodoxy : tales of the reluctant messiah, or "your own personal Jesus" / Ben Witherington III; title: 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; title: Pissin' metal : Columbine, Malvo, and the matrix of violence / Gregory Bassham and Henry Nardone; title: Reloaded Revolutions / Slavoj Žižek.