Why We Want To Be Afraid (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Nbm House, 2026

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Paperback. Someone sits alone in the dark, heart racing, muscles tensed, watching a fictional murder unfold-and then says, with genuine satisfaction: "That was great."Why does an organism built to detect and escape danger deliberately seek out representations of the very things that would kill it? Why do we pay money, allocate evenings, and invent ever more immersive technologies just to feel afraid under controlled conditions?Why We Want to Be Afraid is a rigorous, wide-ranging investigation of that paradox. Drawing on Aristotle's original question about the pleasure of tragic suffering, Burke's and Kant's theories of the sublime, Freud's uncanny, Kristeva's abject, contemporary neuroscience of threat detection, and the evolving forms of horror from the Gothic novel through slashers, found footage, true crime, creepypasta, video games, and virtual reality, Calder Ash maps the strange territory of "safe terror."The book argues that the pleasure of horror lives in a narrow, carefully maintained gap: I am afraid.I know I am safe.I enjoy being afraid.In that dual awareness-threat signals firing while the mind simultaneously registers the frame of fiction, play, or elective exposure-fear is relocated from survival emergency to structured experience. We do not seek isolated terror. We seek the full arc of anticipation, escalation, confrontation, and the distinctive pleasure of surviving it.From the predictive brain's exploitation of ambiguous cues, to the retained control that makes approach possible, to the cosmic indifference that removes the human safety net, Ash shows how horror functions as a technology for temporarily abandoning the assumption that reality is safe, intelligible, predictable, and under our control-and then returning. The return is essential. The residual unease is part of the point.Clear-eyed, philosophically grounded, and written with the momentum of the best cultural criticism, Why We Want to Be Afraid is essential reading for anyone who has ever loved a horror film, a ghost story, a scary game, or the peculiar satisfaction of walking out of the dark knowing the monster stayed behind. 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
Why We Want To Be Afraid (Paperback)
Autore
Calder Ash
Editore
Nbm House
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798237003451

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