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Literature, philosophy, nihilism : the uncanniest of guests /

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Main Author: Weller, Shane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Nihilism (Philosophy) > History.
Literature > Philosophy > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : what's in a name
  • Absolute devaluation : Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Homelessness : Martin Heidegger
  • Fatal positivities : Theodor Adorno
  • The naïve calculation of the negative : Maurice Blanchot
  • Bad violence : Jacques Derrida
  • The fracture : Giorgio Agamben
  • Distortions, or, Nihilism against itself : Gianni Vattimo
  • The denial of (Greek) thought : Alain Badiou
  • Conclusion : nihilism at the door.