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Modernism and Nihilism

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  • © 2011

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  1. Shane Weller
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Part of the book series: Modernism and... (MAND)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, Nihilism

    1. Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, Nihilism

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 1-14

  3. Philosophical Modernism and Nihilism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. From the French Revolution to Nietzsche

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 17-41

    3. Nietzsche’s Long Shadow

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 42-73

  4. Aesthetic Modernism and Nihilism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. From Flaubert to Dada

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 77-101

    3. Kafka and After

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 102-136

  5. Postmodernism and Nihilism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Our Only Chance?

      • Shane Weller
      Pages 139-165

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 166-182
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About this book

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.

About the author

SHANE WELLER  is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2005), Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006), and Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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