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In the Dust of This Planet
- Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Series: Horror of Philosophy, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Literary History & Criticism
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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 underappreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music.
"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)
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- Jeffrey D
- 01-03-21
Interesting jumble, ending on a hopeful note
This book is mostly a mash-up of promissory notes that remain unpaid. The author is apparently trying to explain the unhuman. He brings in the horror genre, which to my mind is not unhuman at all. He talks about western mysticism, which to my mind is not unhuman at all. He talks about Bataille, and I am afraid I can make no sense of that, except that Bataille was interested in Buddhism and Hinduism, thus foreshadowing the final pages of this book. He talks about climatological and geologic phenomena, which are clearly non-human, but are of great human import, Finally, at the very end, he refers briefly to the Kyoto school of philosophy, and the concept of sunyata, usually translated as 'emptiness.' Here the author has finally landed on a tradition that does take into consideration the unhuman (if we grant that emptiness is in some sense unhuman). But after little more than the bare mention of emptiness, the book ends. If the reader is interested in the Buddhist notion of emptiness, time might be better spent reading about it directly, say through the works of Nishida or Nishitani. In fact, I would recommend reading (on Google) the author's short 2016 review in the Japan Times entitled Black Illumination: the Abyss of Keiji Nishitani of the philosophy of Nishitani. Then you don't have to read this book.
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- Mr. Johnson
- 08-31-20
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. . . don't pronounce Goethe like it's a condition caused by an iodine deficiency.
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- vurnt22
- 07-09-20
Fabulous study of Philosophy as Horror
Well written, beautifully read, full of thoroughly relatable insights which are SO very relevant in our current days of modern plague.
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- Allen
- 07-07-20
In-depth philosophical analysis of life and nothingness
Thacker’s deconstruction of the relationship of the human species and its environment adds dimensions of understanding and genesis of perspective to the journey down the rabbit hole.
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- Talmadge
- 03-29-20
Excellent for anybody interested in culture and pessimism
Everything about this was outstanding, well-written, and translated into a understandable language. Can’t wait to read more from author.