Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick

＂Despite his enduring popularity, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) has long been a marginal figure in American literature, even in the science fiction genre he helped revolutionize. Offering a major new perspective on the author, influential French philosopher David Lapoujade orients Dick within philosophy and draws connections to a wide variety of other thinkers and artists, revealing his oeuvre to comprise a profound reality defined by artifice, precarity, and control＂--

David Lapoujade is professor of philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, whose numerous books include The Lesser Existences: Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual and Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (both from Minnesota).

Erik Beranek is a writer and editor and has translated works by Jacques Rancière, Étienne Souriau, Michel Foucault, and David Lapoujade.