In this book, Graham Harman extracts the basic philosophical concepts underlying
Lovecraft's work, yielding a "weird realism" capable of freeing continental phi
losophy from its current soul-crushing impasse. Abandoning Heidegger's pious ref
erences to Holderlin and the Greeks, Harman develops a new philosophical mytholo
gy centered in such Lovecraftian figures as Cthulhu, Wilbur Whately, and the rat
-like monstrosity Brown Jenkin. The Miskatonic River replaces the Rhine and the
Ister, while Holderlin's Caucasus gives way to Lovecraft's Antarctic mountains o
f madness.
