Starry speculative corpse / Eugene Thacker.
Starry speculative corpse / Eugene Thacker.
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G 2015/2697
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English
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186 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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England
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" ... 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 hum...
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Starry speculative corpse / Eugene Thacker.
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Horror of philosophy ; vol. 2.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186).
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G 2015/2697
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74VK78GZjkE3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK78GZjkE3
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ISBN
9781782798910 (paperback)
1782798919 (paperback)
DDC
809.9164
MMS ID
991022913249702626
