In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): Amazon.co.uk: Eugene Thacker: 9781846946769: Books

[Mark Thibodeau]

It's definitely NOT Dan Brown territory. But I don't know how good it is,
exactly. I'm about a third of the way through (by the way, it's the first
book of a trilogy) and it's not as sexy as your description makes it sound.
Heidegger and Lovecraft dovetail nicely, it turns out!

J

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the ambitious pretension of that phrase " the thought of the limit
> of all thought"......
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Tommy Pinecone <endaflynn345 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> This fellow sounds like the Dan Brown of philosophy.
> " 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."
> Thank God, philosophy is fun now. Don't know about you, but it sounds far
> too sexy and 'modern'-in all its worse connotations-for my liking.
> A good study of nihilism is "The Anatomy of Negation". One of the only
> studies I've read that didn't turn it into a theme for your teenage years.
> Maybe it's the times, but the recent appeal of nihilism has spawned a great
> deal of hack-academic work that is more often than not farcical. If John's
> impression is anything to go by, I might just lump this book in with the
> rest of them.
>
> Also, what was the general reception of True-Detective here?
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:08 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I ordered a copy of this on the back of the Radiolab podcast on
>> nihilism in which it featured heavily. Some P-listers will enjoy the
>> show itself - http://www.radiolab.org/story/dust-planet/ - but the
>> book is written in a voice that makes it weirdly inaccessible for this
>> reader. It's one of those books that works as an argument for a good
>> editor but I do keep meaning to try it again so there's that going for
>> it at least.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Supposedly a a True Detective influence.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dust-This-Planet-Horror-Philosophy/dp/184694676X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V5RX3ZKBCZHRECY7H7B&dpID=41n0bSC941L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR103%2C160_
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad-
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