Modernism and Nihilism

Informationen zum Autor SHANE WELLER  is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihili sm (2005), Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), and Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Klappentext Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism. Zusammenfassung Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers! from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges! this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, Nihilism PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL MODERNISM AND NIHILISM From the French Revolution to Nietzsche Nietzsche's Long Shadow PART II: AESTHETIC MODERNISM AND NIHILISM From Flaubert to Dada Kafka and After PART III: POSTMODERNISM AND NIHILISM Our Only Chance? Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: S Weller, S. Weller, Shane Weller
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2010
• EAN: 9780230231030
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23103-0
• No. of pages: 189
• Series: Modernism and...; Modernism and...
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, History, European History, Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, History of Philosophy, History of Science, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History