{"product_id":"on-the-verge-of-nothing-pessimisms-impossible-beyond-paperback","title":"On the Verge of Nothing: Pessimism's Impossible Beyond - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary J. Shipley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Shipley's \u003ci\u003eOn the Verge of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we \u003ci\u003ebegin\u003c\/i\u003e from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley's ciphers - Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art - pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading \u003ci\u003eOn the Verge of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, the primordial philosophical question of \"how to live\" now takes on contours that are colder, more detached, and yet, somehow, deeply engaged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eugene Thacker, author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Resignation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning insistently with the end of thought, this panegyric of the pointless offers a withering post-pessimistic ethics and aesthetics of diversionary tactics for life in the void. Territories traversed include dreams and delusions, the limits and purpose of self-consciousness, human animality, and the paradox of feeling-thinking. Gary J Shipley's lucid, often pitiless diagnoses; rigorous, informed, and tight arguments; bons mots and essential apercus - larded with a rich compost of quotation (Pessoa, Lispector, Cioran, Kafka, etc.) - pursue a relentless thrashing of thought, sketching both a Bartlett's and a Baedeker of our inevitable doom. These essays, aphorisms, fragments, and quotations have been shored not against but amidst ruin. Experimental, exploratory soundings and performances, a fantasia for the end of the world: this word horde is an essential drug for addicts of the impossible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stuart Kendall, author of \u003ci\u003eGeorges Bataille\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePessimism is the tenor of our times, even if it is rarely fully embraced. Gary J. Shipley's important book not only embraces pessimism, it offers a way to make life liveable not in the modality of morose resignation, but with enthusiasm. This is an achievement, even for pessimists who regard all achievement as ultimately futile. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scott Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e (from the Foreword)\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46194451480773,"sku":"9781735643830","price":28.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/KAx5h_VHYM9781735643830.webp?v=1778230595","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/on-the-verge-of-nothing-pessimisms-impossible-beyond-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}