Summary
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 profo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816666669 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0816666660 |
| Author: | Laurence A. Rickels |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Laurence A. Rickels
Laurence A. Rickels moved to the West Coast in 1981 after completing graduate training in German philology at Princeton University. While in California he earned a psychotherapy license. He has published numerous studies of the phenomenon he calls “unmourning,” a term that inspired his trilogy Aberrations of Mourning, The Case of California, and Nazi Psychoanalysis. He has also written the coursebooks The Vampire Lectures and The Devil Notebooks. All of these books have been published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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