In the Dust of This Planet
：Horror of Philosophy vol. 1
Publication subTitle ：Horror of Philosophy vol. 1
Author： Thacker; Eugene
Publisher： John Hunt Publishing
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9781780990101
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781846946769
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781846946769
Subject： B Philosophy and Religion
Keyword： 哲学、宗教
Language： ENG
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In the Dust of This Planet
Description
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 under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music.