Carl H. Sederholm

These kinds of things are always hit or miss. The basic idea is: Why Lovecraft, Why Now? And it's a good question. The essays in this book purportedly try to get at this question, and some actually do, while others seem to have sneaked in. Whether they address the main topic or wander off in another Lovecraftian direction they are all mostly interesting and some even thought provoking. Still, there is some hot air and some over the top theorizing. A case is well made that much posthumanist philosophy was spawned by spotty teenagers' readings of The Great Old Ones. And maybe Lovecraft's uncomfortable breathless awkward adjective driven purplish prose was an attempt at describing the indescribable, like explaining color to a blind man, but maybe we are also reading too much into it as they say.

Not for the faint hearted, so if you are not up on your post humanist philosophy, or Kant, or Heidegger, or object-oriented ontology, etc., well you're not going to lose a lot of sleep over this one. Stuff like this fascinates me but it is a limited audience of water-heads like me that like this sort of thing. I'm not sure if all these things were really rattling around inside Lovecraft's conscious (or unconscious) brain but it's still fun to talk about it.… (plus d'informations)