Новинки Дилана Тригга

Используя темы и образы пустых космических пространств, мрака и холода, экстремальных для жизни условий, ископаемых и археологии, а также опираясь на идеи таких философов, как Э. Гуссерль, Э. Левинас, М. Мерло-Понти, чьи построения разбираются путем рассмотрения боди-хоррора 50–80-х годов (от В. Геста и Р. Бейкера до Дж. Карпентера и Д. Кроненберга), современный британский философ Дилан Тригг разрабатывает свой проект не/человеческой феноменологии, призванной продемонстрировать возможности феноменологии мыслить иное и чужеродное за пределами якобы неразрывной для нее связи бытия и мышления. Тем самым появляется возможность говорить не только «от имени нечеловеческих сфер», но и дать «не/человеческому в человеческом говорить за себя». Не/человеческое — странное и пугающее переплетение человеческого и нечеловеческого — последовательно проводится через несколько стадий осмысления в качестве истока нашего тела: чуждость истока и его космическое происхождение, сопровождаемое чувством вселенского ужаса; темнота истока и его «рассеянность» относительно субъекта как сокрытость в населенной призраками прошлого и пронизанной жутью ночи с присущей ей анонимной материальностью; телесная плоть как исток, демонстрирующий, что самая близкая нам вещь, собственное тело, оказывается одновременно самым далеким от нас нечто; и, наконец, сама плоть, «расползаясь» за пределы тела, понимается как онтологическое начало, которое возвещает о пришествии анонимной материальности в космическом масштабе — сразу и соединяющей и разделяющей вещи этого мира. Ужас, таким образом, «обретается не в предстоящем вымирании, но в предшествующем нам истоке».

A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the history of philosophy – and phenomenology in particular – until now there has been no sustained study of how it shapes our sense of self and being in the world. This book seeks to address that lacuna. Calling upon the author’s own experience of being agoraphobic, it asks a series of critical How is our experience of the world affected by our bodily experience of others? What role do moods play in shaping our experience of the world? How can we understand the role of conditions such as agoraphobia in relation to our normative understanding of the body and the environment? What is the relation between anxiety and home? The reader will gain an insight into the strange experience of being unable to cross a bridge, get on a bus, and enter a supermarket without tremendous anxiety. At the same time, they will discover aspects of their own bodily experience that are common to both agoraphobes and non-agoraphobes alike. Integrating phenomenological inquiry with current issues in the philosophy of mind, Trigg arrives at a renewed understanding of identity, which arranges self, other and world as a unified whole. Written with a sense of vividness often lacking in academic discourse, this is living philosophy.

What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg's The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology gives expression to the alien materiality at the limit of experience.

By fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways in which an unhuman phenomenology positions the body out of time. At once a challenge to traditional notions of phenomenology, The Thing is also a timely rejoinder to contemporary philosophies of realism. The result is nothing less than a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined through the lens of horror.

From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world. Dylan Trigg’s The Memory of Place offers a lively and original intervention into contemporary debates within “place studies,” an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy, geography, architecture, urban design, and environmental studies. Through a series of provocative investigations, Trigg analyzes monuments in the representation of public memory; “transitional” contexts, such as airports and highway rest stops; and the “ruins” of both memory and place in sites such as Auschwitz. While developing these original analyses, Trigg engages in thoughtful and innovative ways with the philosophical and literary tradition, from Gaston Bachelard to Pierre Nora, H. P. Lovecraft to Martin Heidegger. Breathing a strange new life into phenomenology, The Memory of Place argues that the eerie disquiet of the uncanny is at the core of the remembering body, and thus of ourselves. The result is a compelling and novel rethinking of memory and place that should spark new conversations across the field of place studies. Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University and widely recognized as the leading scholar on phenomenology of place, calls The Memory of Place “genuinely unique and a signal addition to phenomenological literature. It fills a significant gap, and it does so with eloquence and force.” He predicts that Trigg’s book will be “immediately recognized as a major original work in phenomenology.”