Starry Speculative Corpse

Name: Starry Speculative Corpse
ISBN: 9781782798910

3/5

(33 votes)

Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse.

But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, 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 human being confronting its own limits.

Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy.

Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss.

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

Format: 201 pages, paperback
First published: Apr 24, 2015
Publishers: Zero Books

I thought this was a much stronger work than In the Dust of a Planet was. I think that Thacker could have expounded his thoughts on nothing a little more with the Kyoto school of philosophers and perhaps even went farther back into Eastern thought with some Daoist musings.

Less punchy and incisive than "In the Dust of This Planet" (though the title is equally strong), here we dance through Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer, and the history of philosophy. Interesting, but it didn't jump out at me as much.

About Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker, author, philosopher and associate professor of Media Studies and Film at New School for Public Engagement and Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, has written several books focusing on nihilism, philosophy and media theory....

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