Modernism And Nihilism

Author : S. Weller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230231030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Nihilism written by S. Weller and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : S. Weller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294626
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Nihilism written by S. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stewart Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319755358
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and Modernism written by Stewart Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.

Author : John Fraser
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456612913
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nihilism, Modernism, and Value written by John Fraser and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors— psychological, sociological, philosophical—involved in that destabilizing. But its principal focus is on reintegration, and it draws freely on real-world experiences to illuminate concepts and strategies. Among the writers whose names figure in it are Conrad, Nietzsche, Beckett, Woolf, Heidegger, Rhys, Pushkin, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Lessing, Stevens, Valéry, and James (William), with particular attention at one point to Kafka and Borges. But no prior knowledge of them is required for following the argument, with its numerous lively quotations. The author himself is advancing heuristically, not just performing an academic exercise. The problems confronted are as relevant still as they were generations ago. A reviewer of John Fraser's first book spoke of "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind which illuminates almost every subject it touches." A reviewer of the second one, both of them published by Cambridge University Press, called it "a brilliant and utterly absorbing work," and said that "There are not many learned books which have the unputdownable quality of a thriller; this is one of them."

Author : Cor Hermans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341803
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interbellum Literature written by Cor Hermans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interbellum Literature Cor Hermans offers an overview of modernist writing in the interwar years. The ideas embodied in the personalities and works of Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, Beckett, Céline and others are captured in a new synthesis.

Author : Laurence Paul Hemming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826438695
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Movement of Nihilism written by Laurence Paul Hemming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nietzsche announced 'the advent of nihilism' in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching 'the history of the next two centuries': 'For some time now', he wrote, 'our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.' Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche's warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it; attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. The book also provides and fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745609713
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Modernity written by Gianni Vattimo and published by Polity. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 proclamations of the end of the modern era. Vattimo pursues questions central to aesthetics and hermeneutic philosophy and sides with contemporary philosophers such as Gadamer and Rorty in rejecting the search for stable and transcendent foundations for knowledge. Going beyond their work he introduces the notions of 'weak thought' and 'weak ontology' which, he argues, offer a way of 'going beyond' metaphysics by curing philosophy of the modernist disease and by resituating questions of truth and being within the realm of human experience.

Author : Jeffrey Metzger
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065562
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future written by Jeffrey Metzger and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important collection of essays examining Nietzsche's response to contemporary nihilism.

Author : Ashley Woodward
Publisher : Davies Group Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781934542088
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nihilism in Postmodernity written by Ashley Woodward and published by Davies Group Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shane Weller
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1904713084
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for the Negative written by Shane Weller and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism.