{"product_id":"cosmic-pessimism-by-eugene-thacker-9781937561475","title":"Cosmic Pessimism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We're doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker's \u003cem\u003eCosmic Pessimism\u003c\/em\u003e explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrying, laughing, sleeping\u003c\/em\u003e—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"about3 Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462733414636,"sku":"9781937561475","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781937561475-cosmic-pessimism.jpg?v=1775022746","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cosmic-pessimism-by-eugene-thacker-9781937561475","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}