H.P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism - (Critical Posthumanisms) by Márk Horváth & Ádám Lovász & Márió Z Nemes (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book is the first monograph detailing the connections between H. P. Lovecraft's weird fiction and posthumanism. More than a retrospective reinterpretation, H. P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism enacts a productive dialogue between Lovecraft's philosophy of cosmic horror and contemporary post-anthropocentrism.

Book Synopsis

The present book is the first monograph detailing the intriguing connections between H. P. Lovecraft's weird fiction and posthumanism. More than a retrospective reinterpretation, H. P. Lovecraft and Posthumanism enacts a productive dialogue between Lovecraft's "cosmic indifferentist" philosophy and contemporary post-anthropocentrism. In more ways than one, Lovecraft's literary and philosophical output alike presaged our contemporary era, one in which the primacy of the human is becoming open to question. The crisis-ridden darkness we face today is revealed as signalling the advent of the posthuman "strange aeon," the Age of Lovecraft.

About the Author

Márk Horváth, Ph.D. (1989) is an adjunct instructor affiliated with the Institute of Fine Arts, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, located in Eger, Hungary. Horváth's work explores the intersections of posthumanism and post-anthropocentric aesthetic, political and social theories. Horváth's most notable works to date include the following: Az antropocén (2021), Darkening Places (2017), The Isle of Lazaretto (2016, with Ádám Lovász). Horváth is also a respected art critic in the Hungarian art world.

Ádám Lovász, Ph.D. (1991) is a scholar located in Budapest, Hungary. Lovász's research interests center on posthumanism, post-anthropocentrism, process philosophy, object-oriented philosophy and systems theory. Among Lovász's most notable books to date are the following monographs: H. P. Lovecraft. Poszthumanista olvasatok (2022, with Márk Horváth and Márió Z. Nemes), Updating Bergson (2021), A valóság visszatérése (2019, with Márk Horváth and Márk Losoncz), Az érzet deterritorializációja (2018).

Márió Z. Nemes, Ph.D. (1982) is a Lecturer working at the Department of Aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Nemes's work has been instrumental in introducing the topics of posthumanism to the Hungarian cultural studies discipline. Together with Márk Horváth and Ádám Lovász, he co-authored A poszthumanizmus változatai (2019), which has become the premier textbook for Hungarian students learning about posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism. Nemes is also an award-winning poet, and co-founder of the Technologie und das Unheimliche, and the Hungarofuturism art collectives.