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You have to go deeper. Inception is more than just a nail-biting heist story, more than just one of the greatest movies of all time.
The latest neuroscience and philosophy of mind tell us that shared dreams and the invasion of dreams may soon become reality. Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For takes you through the labyrinth, onto the infinite staircase, exploring the movie’s hidden architecture, picking up its unexpected clues.
How will Inception change your thinking? You can’t imagine.
How will Inception and Philosophy change your life? You simply have no idea.
The latest neuroscience and philosophy of mind tell us that shared dreams and the invasion of dreams may soon become reality. Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For takes you through the labyrinth, onto the infinite staircase, exploring the movie’s hidden architecture, picking up its unexpected clues.
How will Inception change your thinking? You can’t imagine.
How will Inception and Philosophy change your life? You simply have no idea.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: Open Court
Imprint: Open Court
Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
Publication Date:
01 November 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812697339
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“The authors of Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For will take you downwards and forwards. They’ll plant seeds that grow in your mind. When you come out of it on the other side, you'll find that many things you think you believe never really made sense, and you’ll wonder why you ever thought they did. Pick it up, start reading, wait for the kick.”
—D.E. Wittkower, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion University
“Inception is one of the most philosophically compelling movies to come out in the past twenty years or more. Reading Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For is like waking from a dream. It could be just that.”
—Richard Greene, co-editor of Dexter and Philosophy
“Not since The Matrix has there been a movie so philosophically rich as Christopher Nolan’s Inception. If I had Dom Cobb’s powers, I would plant just one simple idea—resilient, highly contagious—in the minds of bookstore browsers everywhere: Read Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For.”
—Amy Kind, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
“Nothing can kick-start excited conversations on the gnarly nature of the mind quite like the movie Inception and a bunch of passionate philosophers.”
—Luke Dick, writer, artist, singer, philosophy professor
CONTENTS
Who’s Putting Ideas in Your Head?
Level 1 | Come Back to Reality, Please
1. How to Keep Track of Reality
SYLVIA WENMACKERS
2. The Mad Neuroscience of Inception
BERIT BROGAARD
3. Inception and Deception
NATHAN ANDERSEN
4. Plugging in to the Experience Machine
MICHAEL RENNETT
Level 2 | We’re Not in Your Dream
5. You Have No Idea
JANET TESTERMAN
6. The Business of Inception
DANIEL P. MALLOY
7. Mental Burglary
MARCUS SCHULZKE
8. Right and Wrong in Dreams
JOSEPH GARVIN
Level 3 | The Infinite Staircase
9. Ariadne’s Clue to Life, the Universe, and Everything
THOMAS KAPPER
10. Once Upon a Time
RANDALL E. AUXIER
11. The Story of Reality
EMILIE DIONNE
12. Butterfly and Spinning Top
HIU M. CHAN
Level 4 | The Most Resilient Parasite
13. Dream Bigger, Darling
JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND ORA MCWILLIAMS
14. Shared Dreams in Virtual Worlds
MATTHEW BROPHY
15. The Movie as a Thinking Machine
THORSTEN BOTZ-BORNSTEIN
16. Where Time Stands Still
INDALECIO GARCIA
Level 5 | Downwards Is the Only Way Forwards
17. Dreams, Mourning, and Desire
NICOLAS FLOURY
18. The Undiscovered Country Called Experience
JASON J. HOWARD
19. Inception’s Faith in Everyday Life
CHRISTOPHE D. RINGER
20. Building and Dwelling in Inception
VALENTIN HUSSON
21. Dream Time
RANDALL E. AUXIER
Some of Our Totems (Bibliography)
Just Projections of Someone’s Subconscious (Author bios)
Architectural Code (Index)
Who’s Putting Ideas in Your Head?
Level 1 | Come Back to Reality, Please
1. How to Keep Track of Reality
SYLVIA WENMACKERS
2. The Mad Neuroscience of Inception
BERIT BROGAARD
3. Inception and Deception
NATHAN ANDERSEN
4. Plugging in to the Experience Machine
MICHAEL RENNETT
Level 2 | We’re Not in Your Dream
5. You Have No Idea
JANET TESTERMAN
6. The Business of Inception
DANIEL P. MALLOY
7. Mental Burglary
MARCUS SCHULZKE
8. Right and Wrong in Dreams
JOSEPH GARVIN
Level 3 | The Infinite Staircase
9. Ariadne’s Clue to Life, the Universe, and Everything
THOMAS KAPPER
10. Once Upon a Time
RANDALL E. AUXIER
11. The Story of Reality
EMILIE DIONNE
12. Butterfly and Spinning Top
HIU M. CHAN
Level 4 | The Most Resilient Parasite
13. Dream Bigger, Darling
JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND ORA MCWILLIAMS
14. Shared Dreams in Virtual Worlds
MATTHEW BROPHY
15. The Movie as a Thinking Machine
THORSTEN BOTZ-BORNSTEIN
16. Where Time Stands Still
INDALECIO GARCIA
Level 5 | Downwards Is the Only Way Forwards
17. Dreams, Mourning, and Desire
NICOLAS FLOURY
18. The Undiscovered Country Called Experience
JASON J. HOWARD
19. Inception’s Faith in Everyday Life
CHRISTOPHE D. RINGER
20. Building and Dwelling in Inception
VALENTIN HUSSON
21. Dream Time
RANDALL E. AUXIER
Some of Our Totems (Bibliography)
Just Projections of Someone’s Subconscious (Author bios)
Architectural Code (Index)