Nihilism, Modernism, and Value

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Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456612913
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis Nihilism, Modernism, and Value by : John Fraser

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."

Modernism and Nihilism

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294626
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism and Nihilism by : S. Weller

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 185 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.

The End of Modernity

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Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745609713
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis The End of Modernity by : Gianni Vattimo

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.

The Essence of Nihilism

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786128
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis The Essence of Nihilism by : Emanuele Severino

Download or read book The Essence of Nihilism written by Emanuele Severino and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of Nihilism published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and to firmly establish Severino's preeminent position within the constellation of contemporary philosophy. In this groundbreaking book, Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of 'the greatest folly', that is, of the belief that 'things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing'. According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has produced a belief in the radical 'nothingness' of things. This, in turn has justified the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction. To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all 'return to Parmenides'. Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes the 'path of night' of nihilism, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent.

Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501283
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory by : Espen Hammer

Download or read book Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory written by Espen Hammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.

Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847065562
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future by : Jeffrey Metzger

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.

Explaining Postmodernism

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Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592476428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Book Synopsis Explaining Postmodernism by : Stephen R. C. Hicks

Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nihilism in Postmodernity

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Publisher : Davies Group Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781934542088
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis Nihilism in Postmodernity by : Ashley Woodward

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:

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456024
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism and the Culture of Market Society by : John Xiros Cooper

Download or read book Modernism and the Culture of Market Society written by John Xiros Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.

Genealogy of Nihilism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474008
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Genealogy of Nihilism by : Conor Cunningham

Download or read book Genealogy of Nihilism written by Conor Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of nothingness can be witnessed in development, with devastating consequences for the way we live.

Le Différend

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816616114
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Le Différend by : Jean-François Lyotard

Download or read book Le Différend written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Differend, Lyotard subjects to scrutiny- from the particular perspective of his notion of 'differend' (difference in the sense of dispute)- the turn of all Western philosophies toward language; the decline of metaphysics; the present intellectual retreat of Marxism; the hopes raised and mostly dashed, by theory; and the growing political despair. Taking his point of departure in an analysis of what Auschwitz meant philosophically, Lyotard attempts to sketch out modes of thought for our present.

Metamodernism

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678665X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Metamodernism by : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Download or read book Metamodernism written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening -- Part I. Metarealism. How the real world became a fable, or, The realities of social construction -- Part II. Process social ontology. Concepts in disintegration & strategies for demolition ; Process social ontology ; Social kinds -- Part III. Hylosemiotics. Hylosemiotics : the discourse of things -- Part IV. Knowledge and value. Zetetic knowledge ; The revaluation of values -- Conclusion : becoming metamodern.

Just Gaming

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719014741
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Just Gaming by : Jean François Lyotard

Download or read book Just Gaming written by Jean François Lyotard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804732956
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism by : Robert Gooding-Williams

Download or read book Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism written by Robert Gooding-Williams and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.

Heidegger and "the Jews"

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816618576
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis Heidegger and "the Jews" by : Jean François Lyotard

Download or read book Heidegger and "the Jews" written by Jean François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to the debate, Heidegger and 'the Jews, ' is a marked departure from the standard fare. In the first of the two interrelated essays, 'the Jews, ' Leotard quickly establishes the theme of the entire text, placing 'the Jews' in lower case, plural, and in quotation marks to represent the outsiders, the nonconformists: the artists, anarchists, blacks, homeless, Arabs, etc. --and the Jews; as an alien and dangerous disruption, they represent an 'other' to be excised from the West's dream of unbounded fulfillment and development.

Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus: Heidegger, authenticity, and modernity

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731270
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus: Heidegger, authenticity, and modernity by : Mark A. Wrathall

Download or read book Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus: Heidegger, authenticity, and modernity written by Mark A. Wrathall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on the dialogue with the continental philosophical tradition, in particular the work of Heidegger, that has played a foundational role in Dreyfus's thinking.

The Postmodern Condition

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Condition by : Jean-François Lyotard

Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.