The Cosmic Horror Of Being Human (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Nbm House, 2026

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Paperback. Nothing has to hate us for us to be insignificant.That single recognition sits at the heart of cosmic horror-and at the heart of this book.The Cosmic Horror of Being Human traces the centuries-long collapse of the human-sized universe. From Copernicus's moving Earth to Darwin's animal continuum, from deep time's geological abyss to Freud's stranger inside the psyche, from Nietzsche's death of guaranteed meaning to Einstein's curved spacetime and the quantum world's refusal of classical intuition, Calder Ash maps the successive decenterings that stripped humanity of spatial privilege, biological exceptionalism, temporal centrality, psychological sovereignty, and metaphysical underwriting.At the pivotal node stands H. P. Lovecraft, the writer who converted this cumulative intellectual trajectory into fiction of permanent imaginative force. Yet the book does not stop with the Mythos. It follows the same logic into evolutionary psychology's view of perception as a fitness-tuned dashboard, neuroscience's portrait of the brain as an alien predictive machine, the emergence of substrate-independent intelligence, and the speculative possibility that the experienced world itself is an interface.The result is neither adolescent nihilism nor consolatory mysticism. Cosmic horror, Ash argues, does not claim that nothing matters. It claims only that nothing guarantees that what matters to us matters universally. Local meaning remains possible; cosmic endorsement does not.Clear-eyed, rigorously argued, and written with literary precision, The Cosmic Horror of Being Human is both a history of ideas and a philosophical confrontation with the present. It asks the question the modern period has made unavoidable: What kind of beings are we in a universe that does not exist for us?For readers of Lovecraft, Ligotti, Thomas Nagel, Nick Bostrom, and anyone who has ever felt the night sky press back against human scale. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Cosmic Horror Of Being Human (Paperback)
Autore
Calder Ash
Editore
Nbm House
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798233795725

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