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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brassier, Ray. Nihil unbound. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (OCoLC)564575544 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ray Brassier |
| ISBN: | 9780230522046 0230522041 |
| OCLC Number: | 137312988 |
| Description: | xiii, 275 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. Destroying the manifest image -- Apoptosis of belief -- Thanatosis of enlightenment -- The enigma of realism -- Pt. II. The anatomy of negation -- Unbinding the void -- Being nothing -- Pt. III. The end of time -- The pure and empty form of death -- The truth of extinction. |
| Responsibility: | Ray Brassier. |
Abstract:
This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.
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'...a powerfully original work which determinedly sets in motion profound and searching questions about philosophy in its relation to the universe.' - Robin Mackay, parallax
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