In the Dust of This Planet
Horror of Philosophy
Zer0 Books · Print & ebook · August 16, 2011
"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..."Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction.
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- Who it’s for
- Explore how supernatural horror gives philosophy a way to face a world that resists understanding.
- Themes
- Philosophy and horror, Limits of human understanding, Occultism and mysticism
- Genres
- Horror Lit Crit, Philosophy, Literary Theory
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"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..."Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world.
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To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music.
Horror at the Limit
Explore how supernatural horror gives philosophy a way to face a world that resists understanding.
Come here for
- Horror in conversation with philosophy, occultism, and mysticism
- A view of horror beyond gore and scare tactics
Expect
- Thought at the edge of what can be understood
- Supernatural horror across fiction, film, comics, and music
Where it sits
| Horror Lit Crit | 67% |
|---|---|
| Philosophy | 35% |
| Literary Theory | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Gothic & Romance Lit Crit
- Philosophical Criticism
- Authors
- Eugene Thacker
- Publisher
- Zer0 Books
- Published
- August 16, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Philosophy and horror · Limits of human understanding · Occultism and mysticism
- Reading lane
- Gothic & Romance Lit Crit