{"product_id":"161386","title":"Bizarre Realism ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5W1vDgiCDlIplA0CqJR.png?v=1764860283\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Bizarre Realism \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/160493581\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Just as Hölderlin was to Heidegger, or Mallarmé was to Derrida or Meillassoux,\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft is a writer who was established for object-oriented philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philosopher Graham Harman boldly calls Lovecraft the greatest writer of the 20th century. \u003cbr\u003eEven Lovecraft's greatness resonates outside the literary world, because he touches on some of the most important philosophical themes of our time.\u003cbr\u003e Some say that Lovecraft's works are nothing more than pulp fiction that cannot escape the limitations of the genre.\u003cbr\u003e However, Harman reads Lovecraft's work as a philosophical text that deals with a world we can never grasp, a reality hidden beyond human perception.\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft's monsters, which endlessly withdraw and create 'gaps' from the sensory qualities we can perceive, best embody Graham Harman's 'strange realism', that is, objects that cannot be fully grasped by the subject.\u003cbr\u003e To philosophically defend the authenticity of Lovecraft's fiction, Harman selects 100 passages from his short stories and analyzes their unique style. \u003cbr\u003eHe uses sharply honed language to reveal the most outstanding achievements of Lovecraft's novels, which have had a profound impact on popular culture and subculture, such as \"The Call of Cthulhu\" and \"At the Mountains of Madness.\"\u003cbr\u003e This book is both a critique of Lovecraft and a philosophical work that outlines the core of Harman's philosophy through his work, but it is also a writing guide that allows a high-resolution observation of how an excellent 'style' is created.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft and Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author of Gaps and Fear\u003cbr\u003e The problem of writing in full\u003cbr\u003e The essential stupidity of all content\u003cbr\u003e Background of existence\u003cbr\u003e It is not inaccurate in its essence\u003cbr\u003e phenomenological gap\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraftian ontology\u003cbr\u003e About the ruin\u003cbr\u003e A strange and remote countryside\u003cbr\u003e comical and tragic orientation\u003cbr\u003e Style and content\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft-style scene\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Call of Cthulhu\u003cbr\u003e Color from Space\u003cbr\u003e Dunwich Horror\u003cbr\u003e Whisperer in the Dark \u003cbr\u003eOn the Mountain of Madness\u003cbr\u003e Shadows over Innsmouth\u003cbr\u003e Dream of the Witch's House\u003cbr\u003e Shadows Out of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003cbr\u003e Bizarre Realism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gathering threads\u003cbr\u003e nuclear fusion\u003cbr\u003e nuclear fission\u003cbr\u003e taxonomic errors\u003cbr\u003e Strange content\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e clear\u003cbr\u003e Americas\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Contrary to Wilson's straightforward assertion that \"Lovecraft was not a good writer,\" I would call him one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e Even Lovecraft's greatness extends beyond the literary world.\u003cbr\u003e Because it touches on some of the most important philosophical topics of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A dogmatist I know once refuted Lovecraft's monster Cthulhu on the grounds that \"a dragon with an octopus head isn't scary.\"\u003cbr\u003e But strictly speaking, Cthulhu was not portrayed that way.\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft's first description of Cthulhu is as follows: \u003cbr\u003e“If my somewhat overactive imagination conjured up a picture of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature all at once, it would not be inaccurate in its essence… but what made it so shockingly creepy was the overall outline of the body…” It is not Lovecraft’s fault that Cthulhu is depicted as an octopus-headed dragon on T-shirts and fantasy art around the world.\u003cbr\u003e …but by exploiting the indirect nature of literature, as distinct from painting or film, Lovecraft simultaneously suspends literal description in three different ways while hinting at the octopus-like dragon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lovecraft is not a pulp writer who forces us to believe simple pronouncements about the amazing properties of otherworldly creatures.\u003cbr\u003e Instead, he is almost dangerously alert to the background that deviates from the certainty of every statement. \u003cbr\u003eSo much energy is spent on weakening one's own narrative.\u003cbr\u003e In this way, Lovecraft's sentences create a gap between reality and our access to that reality.\u003cbr\u003e This is the 'Kantian' aspect of his writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a sense, the theme of this book is the correlation between style and content.\u003cbr\u003e The title, \"Strange Realism,\" suggests a plan to reach a deeper level of realism through Lovecraft than usual.\u003cbr\u003e Most philosophical realism is 'representational' in character.\u003cbr\u003e Such theories maintain that not only is there a real world beyond all human contact, but that this reality can be properly illuminated by discoveries made through natural science or other modes of knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e The book's critique of the literalism and the foolishness of its contents strongly argues that this is impossible. \u003cbr\u003eReality cannot be directly translated into any kind of representation.\u003cbr\u003e Reality is strange.\u003cbr\u003e Because reality is very different from any attempt to represent or measure itself.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.75 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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