The Dark Philosophy of Cosmicism - H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft’s dark philosophy of cosmic horror is known as Cosmicism, which focuses on the insignificance of humanity and its doings at the cosmos-at-large, in contrast to the anthropocentric philosophies in which many find intellectual reassurance. This form of non-anthropocentrism is crucial to the philosophy of Cosmicism. The question of the meaning of life was better left unanswered. Cosmicism is a type of extreme existentialism, as it brings up the uncertainty about the role of humanity in the uncaring universe, an existential crisis on a large scale. Lovecraft embraces the truth of reality. Things are important to us on the human scale, but we simply don’t matter in the cosmos. He described us as “the miserable denizens of a wretched little flyspeck on the back door of a microscopic universe.” ⭐ Support this channel: 📨 Subscribe with email 📺 YouTube Member Perks: ☕ Donate a Coffee: 📘 PayPal 🛒 Official Merch: 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft ▶ The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories ▶ 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 Discord ➔ 🐦 Twitter ➔ 📘 Facebook ➔ 📷 Instagram ➔ 🎧 Podcast ➔ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction: Fear of the Unknown 1:35 A Biography of H.P. Lovecraft 7:20 Introdction: Cosmicism 12:00 The Cthulhu Mythos: Introduction 14:03 The Cthulhu Mythos: The Elder Things 15:10 The Cthulhu Mythos: The Great Old Ones and The Deep Ones 18:05 The Cthulhu Mythos: The Outer Gods 21:26 Fourth Dimensional Horrors 24:48 Forbidden Knowledge 25:50 The Dreamlands 26:37 Otherness: Anti-Human Becoming ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Sinister Dark Ambient Background Music Dark Rage - Music 2. Peaceful Ambient Background Music Heroes - Music 3. As the World Fell Background Music – Music 4. Magnetic Documentary Background Music – Music 5. Black Waters – Myuu 6. Drums of the Deep – Kevin MacLeod 7. The Crypt – Myuu 8. Dark Ambient Background Music The Lost – Music Subscribe to Music Subscribe to Myuu Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod () Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 Artists Check the pinned comment for the full list (running out of space to type). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927) Smith, P. (2011). Re‐visioning Romantic‐Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of HP Lovecraft. Literature Compass, 8(11), 830-839 - Oliva, J. (2020). Lovecraft’s Fear of the Unknown and Unimaginable - Slåtten, K. Ø. (2016). Humans in a hostile cosmos: Science, cosmicism and race in HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos (Master’s thesis, University of Stavanger, Norway). - Nagelvoort, C. (2020). Becoming Anti-Human: How Lovecraftian Horror Philosophically Deconstructs Otherness - Rosen, M., Al-Rayes, H., Beech, A., et. al (2020). Diseases of the Head: Essays on the Horrors of Speculative Philosophy - - - - - - - - ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for watching :) #lovecraft #cosmicism