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The Matrix and philosophy : welcome to the desert of the real

Paperback • 2002 • English

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Is the world around us truly as it appears or are we inert bodies in tanks, our brains subjected to electronic stimulation creating a make-believe world of hallucination? The Keanu Reeves cult sci-fi movie, The Matrix, vividly conveyed the excitement and the horror of a fake world made of nothing but perceptions, substituting for a real world of grim despair. Since The Matrix is probably the most overtly philosophical movie ever to have come out of Hollywood it has popularised issues on which ph...Show more

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9780812695021

Publisher

Chicago : Open Court

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

The Matrix and philosophy : welcome to the desert of the real

Format

Paperback

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