Starry Speculative Corpse: Horror of Philosophy vol. 2

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. 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 Foligno) Dark contemplation (The Cloud of Unknowing) The dark night (John of the Cross) Excess of darkness (Georges Bataille) An exegesis on divine darkness Blanchot's night The black universe Dark, black Nothing to see Black on black 3. Prayers for nothing Horror vacui Nothing and nothingness (Heidegger, Sartre, Badiou) God is nothing (Meister Eckhart) Four definitions of nothing Logic of the divine Metaphysical correlation, mystical correlation Death in deep space (The Kyoto school) Absolute nothingness (Nishida) Towards emptiness (Nishitani) 4. Prayers for negation What should not be On absolute life The ontology of generosity On ascensionism Schopenhauer's antagonisms Schopenhauer and the negation of life The riddle of life Life negating life Cosmic pessimism Philosophical doomcore Better not to be Logics of the worst The specter of eliminativism 5. Last words, lost words The relinquished philosopher A very, very, very short history of philosophy Phantasms (I) Here ... everything is by design What you see is what you get What to do with thought Phantasms (II) Depressive realism Born in the ruins of philosophy Variations on misanthropy (Brassier) Towards a philosophy of futility Pascal's abyss.