H.P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism /

The present book is the first monograph detailing the intriguing connections between H. P. Lovecraft's weird fiction and posthumanism. More than a retrospective reinterpretation, H. P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism enacts a productive dialogue between Lovecraft's "cosmic indifferentist&q...

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Main Authors: Horváth, Márk (Author), Márk Horváth (Author), Lovász, Ádám (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Critical Posthumanisms ; 9.
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Call Number: PK6530

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Summary:The present book is the first monograph detailing the intriguing connections between H. P. Lovecraft's weird fiction and posthumanism. More than a retrospective reinterpretation, H. P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism enacts a productive dialogue between Lovecraft's "cosmic indifferentist" philosophy and contemporary post-anthropocentrism. In more ways than one, Lovecraft's literary and philosophical output alike presaged our contemporary era, one in which the primacy of the human is becoming open to question. The crisis-ridden darkness we face today is revealed as signalling the advent of the posthuman "strange aeon," the Age of Lovecraft.
Physical Description:1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004756083