Contemporary philosophical literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Chapters: Books by Daniel Dennett, Books by Martin Heidegger, Existentialist works, Works by Jacques Derrida, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Blade Runner, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Taxi Driver, Donnie Darko, Consciousness Explained, Madlax, Wolf's Rain, Welcome to the N.H.K., Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister", The Moral Landscape, Themes in Blade Runner, Being and Time, Echographies of Television, Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Godkiller, Ai City, The Question Concerning Technology, Elbow Room, The Origin of the Work of Art, Laughter, The Mind's I, Freedom Evolves, Jürgen Habermas bibliography, Les Temps modernes, Between Past and Future, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Xueren, Specters of Marx, The Rhetoric of Drugs, Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, Contributions to Philosophy, Re.press, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, Limited Inc, Truth and Method, Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics, The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Positions, Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, Glas, Social Epistemology, Philosophy and Theology, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, Right to Philosophy, Come Find Yourself, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy, Writing and Difference, Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order, Acts of Literature, Archive Fever, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, Word and Object, Organon F, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994, Brainstorms, Ethica thomistica. Excerpt: Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants-visually indistinguishable from adult humans-are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation; as well as by other "mega-manufacturers" around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "Blade Runners". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert blade runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down. Blade Runner initially polarized critics: some were displeased with the pacing, while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. The film performed poorly in North American theaters but, despite the box office failure of the film, it has since become a cult classic and is now widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made. Blade Runner has been hailed for its production design, depicting a "retrofitted" future, and it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre. Blade Runner brought the work of author Philip K. Dick to the attention of Hollywood and several later films were based on his work. Ridley Scott regards Blade Runner as "probably" his most complete and personal film...