New Book - Ray Brassier, 'Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction'

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Description



Nihilism is not an affliction to be overcome, but a vector of intellectual discovery which philosophy should try to push to its ultimate conclusion. Rather than trying to safeguard the experience of meaning-construed as the defining feature of human existence-from the incursions of science, philosophy should strive to demystify it and deploy its considerable speculative resources to facilitate science's labor of disenchantment. Disregarding the orthodox division between analytic and continental traditions, this book tries to forge a link between revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy and speculative realism in contemporary French philosophy.



Contents

Preface

PART I: DESTROYING THE MANIFEST IMAGE

The Apoptosis of Belief

The Thanatosis of Enlightenment

The Enigma of Realism

PART II: THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION

Unbinding the Void

Being-Nothing

PART III: THE END OF TIME

The Pure and Empty Form of Death

The Truth of Extinction

Bibliography


Author Biography

RAY BRASSIER is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, UK.

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Further details and a sample chapter can be viewed here.

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