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Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism : The Uncanniest of Guests by Shane Weller is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><p>This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Wyndham Lewis, Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Focusing in particular on the ways in which each of these thinkers produces a theory of the literary as the privileged form of resistance to nihilism, Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche.<p></p>

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Shane Weller
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9786612198229
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism

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