Tentacles longer than night / Eugene Thacker.
Tentacles longer than night / Eugene Thacker.
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G 2015/2695
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English
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Physical content
204 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
1. Tentacles longer than night -- The vast and seething cosmos (Poe, Lovecraft) -- Horror of philosophy -- On supernatural horror (A personal history) -- I can't believe what I see, I can't see what I believe -- 2. Meditations on the demonic -- On Hell (Dante's Inferno) -- Digression on Hell -- Dead...
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England
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" ... 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 li...
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Tentacles longer than night / Eugene Thacker.
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Horror of philosophy ; vol. 3.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-204).
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G 2015/2695
Record Identifier
74VK78GJLKkO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK78GJLKkO
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ISBN
9781782798897 (paperback)
1782798897 (paperback)
DDC
809.9164
MMS ID
991022913289702626
