Processual Pessimism. On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness

Processual Pessimism. On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness – the second part of the dilogy of the “Tragic”. What is left for a person when the scale of the tragic goes beyond human life and rises to the size of the universe? When the usual explanations dissipate, and existence itself is revealed as a brief pattern of matter against a background of slow, inexorable decay?