A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies

by Mark Silcox

Book Overview

This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard have warned us of the dangers of living on too heavy a diet of illusion and make-believe. But contemporary cultural life provides broader, more attractive opportunities to do so than have existed at any other point in history. The gentle forms of self-deceit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032094214
• ISBN13: 9781032094212
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"