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Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction

By Ray Brassier

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0230522041, 9780230522046, 9780230590823
LCC
B828.3 .B73 2008
Open Library ID
OL10194451M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1209132 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
296\290
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning--characterized as the defining feature of human existence--from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment, this book attempts to push nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by forging a link between revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy and anti-phenomenological realism in recent French philosophy. Contrary to an emerging "post-analytic" consensus which would bridge the analytic-continental divide by uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against the twin perils of scientism and skepticism, this book short-circuits both traditions by plugging eliminative materialism directly into speculative realism.

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