Abyss

Scar night

by Campbell, Alan

fromBantam spectra book

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When one of the inhabitants of Deepgate, a city suspended by giant chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, turns traitor, an untested boy and a psychotic murderer venture into the abyss in search of a powerful magic rumored to lie there.

This thesis focuses on the figure of an abyss residing at the heart of metaphysics, and argues that thinking in light of its destabilising connotations opens up the possibility of attempting to take responsibility for the violence immanent to any and all politico-philosophical p…