The transcendent as "unnamed" in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2076-0590-2025-16-122-131Keywords:
Lovecraft, being, cognition, philosophy of horror, the frontiers of knowledgeAbstract
Since ancient times mankind has tried to go beyond the limits of sensory experience. The images formed in myths and legends were a vivid expression of not just the metaphysical and noumenal (transcendental), but the transcendent. One of these images was the goddess Hecate, who shows that knowledge that violates the principles of morality threatens madness. In his quest for knowledge, man has stopped thinking about the consequences that sooner or later he will have to face. Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a cult figure in world literature, whose works anticipated the clash of mankind with the problem of the boundary of the transcendent concept of being, and his philosophy of cosmicism proved to be very relevant in the context of the formation of nonclassical and post-nonclassical science, the feature of which was the entry of the subject of knowledge into the "body" of knowledge, changing the very understanding of the subject of science. The "neo-myth" of Lovecraftian horror, like classical myths, is an attempt to overcome stable conceptual models of understanding existential issues in the space of interdisciplinary synthesis of humanitarian and natural science knowledge. The article shows that Lovecraft's works, like any neomyth, are based on conceptual models borrowed from mythology, most often ancient Greek, and the main concept of his philosophy – "the unnamable" – is closely connected with horror, since it is the experience of horror that indicates the existence of boundaries in nature, and, consequently, the reality cognizable by man.References
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