PDF In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy (Volume 1) (Horror of Philosophy, 1)

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In
the
Dust
of
This Planet Horror of Philosophy
(Volume
1)
(Horror
of
Philosophy,
1)
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Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism
nbspThackers
discourse
on the intersection of horror and philosophy is
utterly original and
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utterly captivatingThomas Ligotti author of The
Conspiracy Against the Human RaceThe world is
increasingly unthinkable a world of planetary
disasters emerging pandemics and the looming
threat of extinction In this book philosopher
Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre
of horror as offering a way of thinking about the
unthinkable world To confront this idea is to
confront the limit of our ability to understand
the world in which we livea central motif of the
horror genreIn the Dust of This Planet explores
these relationships between philosophy and horror
In Thackers hands philosophy is not academic
logicchopping 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
underappreciated genre of supernatural horror in
fiction film comics and musicnbspThis
relationship between philosophy and horror does
not mean the philosophy of horror if anything it
means the reverse the horror of philosophy those
moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically
confronts the horizon of its own existence For
Thacker the genre of supernatural horror is the
key site in which this paradoxical thought of the
unthinkable takes place