I think I am
Subtitle: Philip K. Dick
By: Laurence A. Rickels.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780816666652; 9780816666669
Subjects: Dick, Philip K. -- Criticism and interpretation; Science fiction, American -- Philosophy; Philosophy in literature
Description: "For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick--though in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writer's work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks, it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick's writing as well as a recognition of Rickels's own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary.

I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction author's meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dick's science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick's popular and influential science fiction."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introjection; title: Endopsychic allegories; title: Radio free Albemuth, Valis, the divine invasion, the transmigration of Timothy Archer, and confessions of a crap artist; title: Schreber guardian; title: Time out of joint; title: Belief system surveillance; title: A scanner darkly; title: Veil of tears; title: The cosmic puppets, Eye in the sky, The man who japed, and The man in the high castle; title: Go west; title: Dick Manfred; title: Timing; title: Martian time-slip; title: Glimmung; title: Galactic pot-healer, nick and the glimmung, and a maze of death; title: Spiritualism analogy; title: Imitating the dead; title: Dr. Bloodmoney, voices from the street, and Mary and the giant; title: Indexical layer; title: Deus Irae; title: Ilse; title: Hammers and things; title: Vulcan's hammer; title: Crucifictions; title: The world Jones made and counter-clock world; title: Over there; title: Solar lottery and our friends from Frolix 8; title: Martyrology; title: Can't live, can't live; title: The game-players of Titan, clans of the Alphane Moon, and now wait for last year; title: Lola; title: Umwelt, mitwelt, and eigenwelt; title: The simulacra; title: Outer race; title: The crack in space and the Ganymede Takeover; title: The German introject; title: The Penultimate Truth and Lies, Inc.; title: Materialism, idealism, and cybernetics; title: Startling stories; title: A couple of years; title: Do androids dream of electric sheep and The zap gun; title: Android empathy; title: Homunculus and robot; title: We can build you; title: All of you are dead, I am alive; title: The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Ubik; title: Go with the flow; title: Flow my tears, the policeman said; title: Room for thought; title: Caduceus; title: Dr. Futurity; title: Jump; title: Still; title: A wake; title: Let the dead be; title: Play bally; title: Das hund.