Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

“We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”

Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including In The Dust of This Planet. He teaches at the New School in New York

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ISBN 13	9781937561475
ISBN 10	193756147X
Titre	Cosmic Pessimism
Auteur	Eugene Thacker
Série	Univocal
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Univocal Publishing LLC
Année de publication	2015-08-01
Nombre de pages	55
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