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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. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this parado

Who reads In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy (Volume 1) (Horror of Philosophy, 1)?

Author

Eugene Thacker

Publisher

John Hunt Publishing

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782798910

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Romance, Sports, History

Rating

3.82 / 5 (158 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14