Old Night: On the Persistence of the Abyss
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ePUB
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Ja
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
31.03.2026
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NBM HouseSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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93 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9798233825910
In Old Night, Nox Vale delivers a brilliant, haunting meditation on the primordial darkness that precedes, surrounds, and ultimately outlasts every form of ordercosmic, theological, political, psychological, and digital. Drawing on Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's prophetic inversions, Nietzsche's abyss, Lovecraft's cosmicism, Heidegger's concealment, and the strange aesthetics of the contemporary internet, this book traces the recurring figure of "Old Night": the formless, generative ground from which structure emerges and to which it returns.
Far more than literary criticism or philosophy, Old Night is a sustained inquiry into the fragile architecture of meaning itself. Why does every created order feel suspended over something older and indifferent? What happens when that indifference becomes culturally visiblein signal decay, liminal spaces, accelerationist memes, or the quiet dissolution of self online? Vale refuses easy consolations, whether theological triumph or nihilistic surrender. Instead, the book maps the tension between form and formlessness with rare intellectual honesty: Night is not the enemy of creation but its permanent substrate, its condition of possibility, and its patient horizon.
Rich in literary insight, philosophical rigor, and contemporary resonance, Old Night speaks to anyone who has felt the ground shift beneath familiar certaintieswhether in the face of cosmic scale, technological acceleration, or the quiet vertigo of modern existence. It is a book for readers drawn to the edges where theology meets horror, where poetry confronts physics, and where the abyss quietly looks back.
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