Howling in the Void

By Benjamin Cain

Somewhere within the void of outer space that's actually not empty because it's full of vacuum energy, there's the emptiness suffered by philosophical creatures. This is the void of the meaningless, overanalyzed, godless life. It's the void of how the world looks without self-serving delusions or the cultural resources to inspire a leap of faith in some worthy ultimate goal. It's the void of hyperskepticism, of introversion, of disgust with the shallowness of popular entertainments. It's the void of contempt even for the norms imposed on us by capitalistic conventions and by our biological life cycle, such as the norms of mental health and sexuality.What if enlightenment is a curse, a proverbial deal with the devil? What if just by coming to understand the real world, we're inevitably alienated from it, making happiness impossible for us? Could those who are made outsiders by their rational detachment be inadvertently exploring what will become the godlike posthuman mindset, one free from commitment to obsolete myths? Just as the void between stars is pregnant with subatomic energy, the view from Mount Nowhere may hold the potential for a transformative aesthetic vision of nature as being horrifically mindless but also divinely self-creative.Howling in the Void is Benjamin Cain's second philosophical anthology, after Cosmic Horror for Clever Animals. Both books are drawn from articles on the blog which he started writing in 2011, called "Rants Within the Undead God." He's the author also of the novel God Decays. Benjamin Cain has a doctorate in philosophy and he howls in the void of Toronto, Canada.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1795701625
• ISBN13: 9781795701624
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"