Starry Speculative Corpse: Horror of Philosophy (Vol 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1782798919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the "Horror of Philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night.. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy
A Guide to the Darkness Moving away from the cultural and aesthetic themes that detailed the first volume of his ‘Horror of Philosophy’ series, Starry Speculative Corpse finds Eugene Thacker casting his dark and idiosyncratic gaze over the realm of philosophy proper. No longer witches, demons and back metal occupy the pages here, but instead arcane treatise. "Dust of this Planet" was great, this is better! Vernon Preitauer Thacker continues to elaborate on his mystic nihilism. This second book of the trilogy leans less on the horror genre metaphor. I find it more focused and clear than the first book.. Waste of time I shelled out the dough, mistakenly. Pure masturbation, with not the slightest poetry. Waste your time with it, if you like. A writer with nothing to say writing about nothing.
"In showing that it can sustain a lucid conversation with philosophy, Thacker's writing also treats horror literature as literature. Students of both philosophy and horror will find surprising inter-illuminations in these three books."Michael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student and Member