Gnostic Dick

Simon Critchley (who in the photograph attached to his series unnervingly resembles the Satanist Anton LaVey, but so do a lot of people) is running a series on the OpEd page of the NYTimes about Philip K. Dick (or PKD as his fans and adulators know him) as a Gnostic philosopher.  As Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, he knows whereof he speaks.   Interesting without being exactly earthshaking (as an appropriate response would have to be.)  

Here's Part 2, where we get to the Gnostics, with a link to Part 1:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html