WEIRD REALISM: LOVECRAFT AND PHILOSOPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 07069514B70350
English Summary/英文概要： As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp status to the classical literary canon with the release of a Library of America volume dedicated to his work. The impact of Lovecraft on philosophy has been building for more than a decade. Initially championed by shadowy guru Nick Land at Warwick during the 1990s, he was later discovered to be an object of private fascination for all four original members of the twenty-first century Speculative Realist movement. In this book, Graham Harman extracts the basic philosophical concepts underlying Lovecraft’s work, yielding a ’weird realism’ capable of freeing continental philosophy from its current soul-crushing impasse. Abandoning Heidegger’s pious references to Hölderlin and the Greeks, Harman develops a new philosophical mythology centered in such Lovecraftian figures as Cthulhu, Wilbur Whately, and the rat-like monstrosity Brown Jenkin. The Miskatonic River replaces the Rhine and the Ister, while Hölderlin’s Caucasus gives way to Lovecraft’s Antarctic mountains of madness.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 像荷尔德林到海德格尔，马拉美到德里达，H.P.洛夫克拉夫特也是投机性现实主义哲学家。洛夫克拉夫特是恐怖和科幻杂志中最耀眼的明星之一，但在20世纪30年代在贫困和相对默默无闻中去世。2005年，因其作品的贡献，美国图书馆终于将他的地位从默默无闻提升到了古典文学经典。洛夫克拉夫特对哲学的影响已建立超过十年。最初由朦胧大师尼克·兰德在90年代初期在沃里克倡导，后来二十一世纪的投机性现实主义运动的所有四个初始成员发现他是拥有个人魅力的对象。在这本书里，格雷厄姆·哈曼提取洛夫克拉夫特相关作品的基本哲学概念，产生了“怪诞现实”，能够从目前灵魂破碎的僵局释放欧陆哲学。放弃海德格尔对荷尔德林和希腊人的虔诚引用，哈曼根据洛夫克拉夫特作品中的人物开发了一个新的哲学神话集，如克鲁苏，威尔伯·惠特利和像老鼠一样的怪物布朗·詹金。当荷尔德林的高加索让路给洛夫克拉夫特的疯狂的南极山脉，密斯卡塔尼克河取代了莱茵河和伊斯特。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：美国的“投机性现实主义”哲学家格雷厄姆·哈曼，…这本关于洛夫克拉夫特的新书不仅仅是对他自己参考书目的新奇和令人兴奋的扩充，还是对那些错误评价洛夫克拉夫特优点的批评家们的讽刺。——布赖恩金，图书回顾，洛杉矶
American “speculative realist” philosopher Graham Harman, …new book on Lovecraft is not only an odd and exciting addition to his own rapidly expanding bibliography but also an affront to those critics who have mistaken Lovecraft’s virtues for faults. ~ Brian Kim Stefans, L.A. Review of Books
About the Author/作者介绍： 格雷厄姆·哈曼是埃及开罗的美国大学的研究管理部门的副教务长，以及哲学教授。他于1968年出生在爱荷华州。他毕业于安纳波利斯（1990）的圣约翰学院，主修古典文学课程。他在宾夕法尼亚州立大学（1991）完成了硕士学位，导师是著名的哲学家阿方索，主要研究列维纳斯。他在芝加哥的德·保罗大学（1999）完成了博士学位，其论文成了他的第一本书。在完成他的博士学业后，他于1996-98担任芝加哥体育记者。2000年9月，他开始在开罗的美国大学的哲学系工作。埃及已经成为他前往60多个国家和地区旅游的基地，他在不到十年的时间里写了十本书。因为道德上的原因，他是一个素食主义者。
Graham Harman is Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in Iowa in 1968. He received his undergraduate degree from the classical liberal arts program at St. John’s College, Annapolis (1990). His Master’s Degree was done at Penn State (1991) under the renowned philosopher Alphonso Lingis, and focused on Levinas. He completed his Ph.D. at DePaul University in Chicago (1999), with a dissertation that became his first book. While finishing his doctoral studies, he worked as a Chicago sportswriter from 1996-98. In September 2000 he began work in the Department of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo. Egypt has become his base for travel to more than 60 countries and the composition of ten books in less than a decade. He is a vegetarian for ethical reasons.
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