Nihil Unbound by Ray Brassier
Enlightenment and Extinction
This book mounts a sustained defense of a rigorously scientific, realist form of nihilism, arguing that philosophy must give up anthropocentric and correlationist habits that protect human meaning from the indifferent findings of physics, biology, and cognitive science. It critiques strains of contemporary continental thought for retreating from the implications of contingency and non-being, and proposes instead that acknowledging extinction, the contingency of values, and the nonteleological character of reality opens new possibilities for metaphysics and thought. Far from promoting despair, the argument holds that confronting the world’s indifference can emancipate thought from anthropomorphic illusions and enable a clearer account of ontology, time, and the limits of cognition.
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- 2007
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- British
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- English
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