9781782798897

Tentacles Longer Than Night

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781782798897

Paperback|9781782798897


Overview

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. 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. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the horror of philosophy trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.

ISBN-13

9781782798897

ISBN-10

1782798897

Weight

0.57 Pounds

Dimensions

5.24 x 0.52 x 8.53 In

List Price

$18.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

219 pages

Publisher

Zero Books

Published On

2015-04-24



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