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Author Brassier, Ray.

Title Nihil unbound : enlightenment and extinction / Ray Brassier
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Contents Eliminative materialism and scientific realism -- The thanatosis of Enlightenment -- The enigma of realism -- The anti-phenomenon -- The enigma of realism -- Transcendental nihilism -- The thanatosis of Enlightenment -- The pure and empty form of death -- Solar catastrophe
Summary This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Naturalism.
Nihilism (Philosophy)
Realism.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0230590829 (electronic bk.)
9780230590823 (electronic bk.)
(print)