Have you read any Cioran?
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I was going to do a survey: Cioran, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche or Land. But then i realised there's too many options for bleakness. Cioran is up there for me, but perhaps too obvious? His bleakness is a little too witty and short, doesn't cause a crisis.
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Yeah, Cioran is the obvious direction.
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Seconding Cioran and his milieu. Ligotti is right up there despite only having one non fiction book afaik. On a slightly tangential note, depending on your intuitions I think Benatar can be interpreted as incredibly bleak.
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Agreed with the Benatar. Not bleak in style but bleak in conclusions.
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Agreed in the Ligotti addition, Conspiracy Against the Human Race is the king of bleakness. Still feel like we're missing someone though.
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Eugene Thacker is also in this mix. In The Dust of This Planet is pretty damn dark. I skew towards more contemporary thinkers though, I hope this thread gets some traction.
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Schopenhauer surely has to get a mention.
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... He thinks-through full puppetization by the transcendental-cosmic nightmare far more thoroughly than the anti-natalists. ...
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... "Oh, sure, it's just going to let you pick up your ball and sulk-off home."
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He gets my vote too. Cioran is too obvious and witty, Nietzsche is far too hopeful, Lovecraft revels in the late madness...and i would mention your work, but the politeness takes the edge off.
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Above all, Sartre (but any phenomenologist could do).
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is Heidegger a phenomenologist?
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Franky, when I think of phenomenology in all its grimness I cannot help but to instantly think of Heidegger
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his transcendental ontology isn't bleak at all though
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if by his transcendental ontology you mean the ontology of dasein, honestly, I think it's incompatible with a minimal taste for the impersonal.
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"...old, cold, boring frogs crawling round men and hopping into them as if they were in their element, namely a swamp". That is Dasein: the bleak swamp of the human.
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What text is this from? I can't remember Heidegger ever getting that inventive with prose within Being and Time. In agreement with cyborgnomad here, Heidegger is actually quite hopeful.
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The text is from the beginning of the Genealogy of Morals (Good and Evil, Good and Bad, 1). Hopeful for what? I find no joy in prioritizing the transcendentality of Man.
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Zapffe's Den sidste Messias (The Last Messiah) is fairly bleak... maybe Cioran in second.
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Thanks, I hadn't heard of Zappfe before
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