The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft /
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The L...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
2017.
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| Series: | SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Letter one: prayers
- Letter two: Warnings
- Letter three: Psychonautics, sublimity, love
- Letter four: Love and ruins
- Letter five: Ruins and race
- Letter six: Ruins, sublimity, laughter
- Letter seven: Race and writing
- Letter eight: Writing and the love of ruins
- Letter nine: Race, the fourth dimension, apophasis
- Letter ten: Race, the love of wounds
- Letter eleven: Wounds, race, music and noise
- Letter twelve: Race, orientalism, writing
- Letter thirteen: Time travel, white mythology, the library
- Letter fourteen: Cities in ruins
- Letter fifteen: The late city, the decline of the west
- Letter sixteen: Basalt towers, trap doors, taboos, nameless beings
- Letter seventeen: Apophasis, science fiction, visibility and racism, impossible politics
- Letter eighteen: Archive, irruption, eruption, basalt
- Letter nineteen: The great race, the archive
- Letter twenty: Comedy and laughter
- Letter twenty-one: Class, socialism, politics
- Letter twenty-two: Doubling, indirect racism, the gift of vision, non-knowledge
- Letter twenty-three: The fourth dimension, community
- Letter twenty-four: The fourth dimension, community, unworking
- Letter twenty-five: Community, sacrifice, cults
- Letter twenty-six: Racial degeneration, police, sacrifice
- Letter twenty-seven: Sacrifice, madness, one blood, the invention of the white race, frogs
- Letter twenty-eight: Untimeliness, sacrifice, religion
- Letter twenty-nine: Religion after religion, dread
- Letter thirty: Religion, the wholesome, faith and knowledge
- Letter thirty-one: Kindness, wonder, horror
- Letter thirty-two: Hauntology, religion, science, "race" and racism
- Letter thirty-three: Modern apophasis
- Letter thirty-four: The weird, the future, the open.
