Modernism and Nihilism

✍ Shane Weller 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to

📁 Modernism and Nihilism

✍ Shane Weller (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

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 m

The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Herme

📁 The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture

✍ Gianni Vattimo 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 Polity 🌐 English

Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought prepared the way for more recent proclamation

Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilis

📁 Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism

✍ Tracy Llanera 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmill 🌐 English

The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings must overcome. Instead, nihilism should be framed

Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philos

📁 Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture

✍ Massimo Cacciari 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Yale Univ Pr 🌐 English

An introduction to the writings of social philosopher Massimo Cacciari. He studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philos

📁 Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture

✍ Massimo Cacciari 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Yale Univ Pr 🌐 English

An introduction to the writings of social philosopher Massimo Cacciari. He studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.