The thing : a phenomenology of horror / Dylan Trigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trigg, Dylan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Physical Description:

vii, 156 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Winchester, UK : Zero Books, 2014.

Summary:

What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg's The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology gives expression to the alien materiality at the limit of experience. By fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways in which an unhuman phenomenology positions the body out of time. At once a challenge to traditional notions of phenomenology, The Thing is also a timely rejoinder to contemporary philosophies of realism. The result is nothing less than a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined through the lens of horror. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 From Beyond 13

Chapter 2 Elemental Horror 41

Chapter 3 The Body Out of Time 61

Chapter 4 The Flesh of the Thing 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

ISBN:

1782790772

9781782790778

OCLC:

880200001

Publisher Number:

99960202638