Philosopher

Eugene Thacker

Overview

Eugene Thacker is an American author. He is a professor of media studies at Parsons School of Design in New York City. His writing is associated with the philosophies of nihilism and pessimism. He is known for his books In the Dust of This Planet and Infinite Resignation.

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Philosophers who discussed Eugene Thacker

• Ray Brassier
• David Benatar
• Arthur Schopenhauer

Ideas Eugene Thacker discusses

• Keiji Nishitani
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Immanuel Kant
• Ray Brassier
• Speculative realism
• Bachelor of Arts
• Islamic philosophy
• Japanese philosophy
• David Benatar
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
• Will to life
• University of Chicago Press
• Meister Eckhart
• Georges Bataille
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Nanotechnology
• Nihilism
• German idealism
• Pessimism
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Mysticism
• Aristotle
• Eliminative materialism
• Comparative literature

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophical pessimism.

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