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  • ANATOMIES OF FEAR
    Calder Ash
    Why do we deliberately seek out the very sensations evolution designed us to avoid?In a dark room, heart racing, muscles tensed, a spectator watches something terrible unfold on screen or page-and then says, with genuine satisfaction: 'That was great.' This is the central paradox of horror. Fear is a survival mechanism: costly, aversive, and built to keep us alive. Yet human be...
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    32,35 €

  • The Dead That Don’t Stay Dead
    Calder Ash
    Death is supposed to end something.The body stops. The person disappears. The relationship closes. The dead become memory, ancestor, name-or nothing at all.Yet across every culture and era, the dead refuse to stay dead.From the restless corpses of medieval Europe to the aristocratic vampire, the mindless zombie horde, the preserved mummy, the sacred relic, the lingering ghost, ...
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    19,05 €

  • Why We Want To Be Afraid
    Calder Ash
    Someone sits alone in the dark, heart racing, muscles tensed, watching a fictional murder unfold-and then says, with genuine satisfaction: 'That was great.'Why does an organism built to detect and escape danger deliberately seek out representations of the very things that would kill it? Why do we pay money, allocate evenings, and invent ever more immersive technologies just to ...
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    20,04 €

  • The Cosmic Horror Of Being Human
    Calder Ash
    Nothing has to hate us for us to be insignificant.That single recognition sits at the heart of cosmic horror-and at the heart of this book.The Cosmic Horror of Being Human traces the centuries-long collapse of the human-sized universe. From Copernicus’s moving Earth to Darwin’s animal continuum, from deep time’s geological abyss to Freud’s stranger inside the psyche, from Nietz...
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    19,03 €