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“Students of both philosophy and horror will find surprising inter-illuminations in these three books.”
Michael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student
Michael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student
Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre.
Philosopher Eugene Thacker explores this situation in
Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human – thought undermining itself, in thought. Also in the series: In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, vol. 1) Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, vol. 2)
