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Modernism and Nihilism

✍ Scribed by Shane Weller (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
185
Series
Modernism and …
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, Nihilism....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
From the French Revolution to Nietzsche....Pages 17-41
Nietzsche’s Long Shadow....Pages 42-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
From Flaubert to Dada....Pages 77-101
Kafka and After....Pages 102-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Our Only Chance?....Pages 139-165
Back Matter....Pages 166-182

✦ Subjects

European History; Modern History; History of Philosophy; History of Science; Social History; Cultural History

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