Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there
seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains
is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human
being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the
vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene
Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night.
Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This
Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and
the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere
illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they
themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge
to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the
world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human-thought
undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the
third volume of the "Horror of Philosophy" trilogy, together with
the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second
volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.
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