In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): 1

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While it can be a bit convoluted and confusing in spots, the book is a worthy introduction to the idea of horror as a philosophical lens as he develops the idea of the “world-without-us. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. The real challenge lies in confronting this enigmatic concept of the world-without-us, and understanding why this world-without-us continues to persist in the shadows of the world-for-us and the world-in-itself. But this world-for-us is not, of course, totally within the ambit of human wants and desires; the world often bites back, resists, or ignores our attempts to mold it into the world-for-us.

Much of modern philosophy, according to Thacker, has been enmeshed in anthropocentric thinking, which ultimately centers the human subject as the center of thought and experience.While the horror genre is an important part of culture, and while scholarly studies of the horror genre do help us to understand how a book or film obtains the effects it does, genre horror deserves to be considered as more than the sum of its formal properties. By contrast, the world-without-us cannot co-exist with the human world-for-us; the world-without-us is the subtraction of the human from the world. If the reader is interested in the Buddhist notion of emptiness, time might be better spent reading about it directly, say through the works of Nishida or Nishitani. Perhaps it would help to advance the argument if you articulated what you take to be the differences between these terms?

ThackerPaperback: 978-1-78279-891-0 eBook: 978-1-78279-890-3 •[ Zero Books ] Tentacles Longer Than Night Horror of Philosophy vol. Thacker's books include In the Dust of This Planet (part of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy) and Infinite Resignation.I do not know what is the nature of noumenon, all I can say is that noumenon need not be like our perceptions of noumenon.