Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations

by Samuel J. Umland

This book contains 11 essays and a comprehensive bibliography. The essays reveal the extent to which Philip K. Dick's personal obsessions pre-figured postmodernist concerns with humanity's self-alienation, cultural and personal paranoia, and the politics of simulation, deceit, and self-deception. The contributors reveal how Dick's ontological concerns, stated in his repeated questioning of What is real?, are also political concerns. Thus, they examine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313292957
• ISBN13: 9780313292958
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"