Kripal, Jeffrey2024-05-212024-052024-04-09May 2024Southey, Matthew. Outside: The Philosophical Methods of Nick Land. (2024). PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116150https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116150EMBARGO NOTE: This item is embargoed until 2030-05-01This dissertation argues that Nick Land’s philosophical project involves two pairs of contradictions: he is a scientific esotericist and a Kantian Nietzschean. However, this is not a straightforward synthesis of opposites, nor a completely successful one. Land’s core motivation comes from his esoteric insights about the future, but he often frames them in a way that is amenable to a scientific age. Philosophically, he inherits the transcendental framework from Kant, and the insistence on nature from Nietzsche. Land is left with a transcendentalism that is esoterically porous to the outside, and a vision of nature that rejects human morals in favor of an absolute valuing of intelligence regardless of embodiment.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Nick LandNietzscheKantCCRUThesis2024-05-21