Modernism and Nihilism

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 mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weller, Shane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2011, 2011
Series:Modernism and …
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:VII, 182 p online resource
ISBN:9780230294622