Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction

Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning--characterized as the defining feature of human existence--from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment, this book attempts to push nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by forging a link between revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy and anti-phenomenological realism in recent French philosophy. Contrary to an emerging "post-analytic" consensus which would bridge the analytic-continental divide by uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against the twin perils of scientism and skepticism, this book short-circuits both traditions by plugging eliminative materialism directly into speculative realism.

Author: R. Brassier
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/08/2007
Pages: 275
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.55h x 6.10w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780230522046

About the Author
RAY BRASSIER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.