Bibliograph

Starry speculative corpse, Eugene Thacker

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Starry speculative corpse, Eugene Thacker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Starry speculative corpse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Eugene Thacker

Series statement

Horror of philosophy, vol. 2

Summary

" ... 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. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. 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. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edges of an abyss"--Cover

Table Of Contents

1. Starry speculative corpse -- Descartes' demon -- Kant's depression -- Nietzsche's laughter -- Horror of philosophy -- 2. Prayers for darkness -- Afraid of the dark -- Tomb of heaven -- Divine darkness (Dionysius the Areopagite) -- The dark god (Meister Eckhart) -- In and with darkness (Angela of Foligno) -- Dark contemplation (the cloud of unknowing) -- The dark night (John of the Cross) -- Excess of darkness (Georges Bataille) -- An exegesis on divine darkness -- Blanchot's night -- The black universe -- Dark, black --Nothing to see -- Black on black -- 3. Prayers for nothing -- Horror vacui -- Nothing and nothingness (Heidegger, Sartre, Badiou) -- God is nothing (Meister Eckhart) -- Four definitions of nothing -- Logic of the divine -- Metaphysical correlation, mystical correlation -- Death in deep space (The Kyoto school) -- Absolute nothingness (Nishida) -- Towards emptiness (Nishitani) -- 4. Prayers for negation -- What should not be -- On absolute life -- The ontology of generosity -- On ascensionism -- Schopenhauer's antagonisms -- Schopenhauer and the negation of life -- The riddle of life -- Life negating life -- Cosmic pessimism -- Philosophical doomcore -- Better not to be -- Logics of the worst -- The specter of eliminativism -- 5. Last words, lost words -- The relinquished philosopher -- A very, very, very short history of philosophy -- Phantasms (I) -- Here ... everything is by design -- What you see is what you get -- What to do with thought -- Phantasms (II) -- Depressive realism -- Born in the ruins of philosophy -- Variations on misanthropy (Brassier) -- Towards a philosophy of futility -- Pascal's abyss

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