UID:
almahu_9949220191702882
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350191907
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9781350191914
Content:
"A Compendium of Philosophical Horrors employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising affects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g. the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, Adam Ferner doesn't shy away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves. Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way than traditional philosophy usually allows. An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of human thought, A Compendium of Philosophical Horrors revels in the unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what thinking philosophically might really mean."--
Note:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'To the Letter' -- 3. 'Proceedings' -- 4. 'The Gravesend Institute' -- 5. 'A Passionate Man' -- 6. ' Campus Rumpus ' -- 7. 'My Word' -- 8. 'Your Hand In Mind' -- 9. 'His Friend, Jim' -- 10. 'Interdisciplinarity' -- 11. Epilogue -- Bibliography.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350191884
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350191914
URL:
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