A Phenomenology of the Alien : Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other (Paperback)

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Nietzsche and Nihilism: Opening to the Dimension of the Other; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Abcanny: Encounters with the Inscrutably Alien; Chapter 2: The Divinalien: On Divine Alterity; Chapter 3: The Alien Other: Cosmology and Social Transmission of UFO Narratives; Chapter 4: The Human and the Smart House: Speculative Psychology and Systems of Attachment; Chapter 5: Repetition and Return in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy; Chapter 6: Alienation, Obsession, and Enthrallment in Thomas Ligotti's “The Small People,” “Nethescurial,” and other Weird Fiction; Chapter 7: The Alien Inside: Jean Laplanche’s Internal Other in the Fiction of Brian Evenson and the Case of Ana; Index.