A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 170
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98136
- ISBN 13 : 9781032856278
- ISBN 10 : 1032856270
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Nietzsche and Nihilism: Opening to the Dimension of the Other
William Franke
1. Introduction: The Abcanny: Encounters with the Inscrutably Alien
Aaron B. Daniels
2. The Divinalien: On Divine Alterity
Emily McAvan
3. The Alien Other: Cosmology and Social Transmission of UFO Narratives
Scott R. Scribner and Gregory J. Wheeler
4. The Human and the Smart House: Speculative Psychology and Systems of Attachment
Anna Bugajska
5. Repetition and Return in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy
Dorothy Chang
6. Alienation, Obsession, and Enthrallment in Thomas Ligotti's “The Small People,” “Nethescurial,” and other Weird Fiction
Jason M. Harris
7. The Alien Inside: Jean Laplanche’s Internal Other in the Fiction of Brian Evenson and the Case of Ana
Michael Waldon
Index