Graham Harman

Broschiertes Buch

Weird Realism

Lovecraft and Philosophy

Beschreibung

As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers.

Autor

Graham Harman is Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in Iowa City, Iowa in 1968, the first of three sons of hippie parents who met at a Rolling Stones concert in Chicago. 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 very fond of animals, and became a vegetarian for ethical reasons at the age of 7. ,

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Collective Ink
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781780992525
• ISBN-10: 1780992521
• Artikelnr.: 36138929