Concept

Simulacrum

Overview

representation or imitation of a person or thing

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Simulacrum

• Philip K. Dick

Related ideas

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Aphrodite
• Gilles Deleuze
• Intellectual property
• Speculative fiction
• Frankenstein
• Metaphor
• Plato
• Philip K. Dick
• Jean Baudrillard
• Robert Nozick
• Transhumanism
• Social theory
• Umberto Eco
• Anthropologist
• Fredric Jameson
• Blade Runner
• Social contract
• Deity
• Iconography
• Supernatural
• Sophist (dialogue)
• Twilight of the Idols
• Alain Badiou

Opposing perspectives

• Theories of truth

Place in the tradition

Part of French philosophy.

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