Cosmic Pessimism - Thacker Eugene
Cosmic Pessimism - Thacker Eugene "We're doomed." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular…
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Cosmic Pessimism - Thacker Eugene
"We're doomed." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments.
Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker's Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. "Crying, laughing, sleeping--what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?"