UID:
almafu_9960772993402883
Format:
1 online resource (VI, 321 p.)
ISBN:
9783110699210
Content:
Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious authority, then what does stop him from committing any kind of crime? Dostoevsky precisely called attention to this danger: if there is no God and no immortality of the soul, then everything is permitted, even anthropophagy. Nietzsche, too, emphasised, although in different terms, the consequences deriving from the death of God and the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality. This context shaped the way in which philosophers, writers and artists thought about violence, in its different manifestations, during the 20th century. The goal of this interdisciplinary volume is to explore the various modern and contemporary configurations of the link between violence and nihilism as understood by philosophers and artists (in both literature and film).
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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Part 1: Philosophy and Politics --
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Nihilism and Violence from Plato to Arendt --
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Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Stage and the Ideology of Nihilism --
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“To smear his boots with the other’s fat”: Conscious and Unconscious Violence --
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Cruelty, Bad Conscience, and the Sovereign Individual in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality --
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Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory in the Times of Platform Nihilism --
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‘Like ants’: The Mafia’s Necropolitics as a Paradigm of Nihilistic Violence --
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Against the Kinship: State, Terror, Nihilism --
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Part 2: Literature and Film --
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Nihilism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Thought --
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Violence, Evil and Nihilism: Nietzschean Traces in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas --
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Signifying Nothing? Nihilism, Violence, and the Sound/Silence Dynamic in Cinema --
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Aestheticizing Murder: Hitchcock’s Rope, Nietzsche, and the Alleged Right to Crime of Superior Individuals --
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Nihilism, Violence, and the Films of Michael Haneke --
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“Supposing Truth is a Woman?”: Nihilism and Violence in Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and Von Trier’s Antichrist --
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“Is Something Funny, Asshole?”: Joker’s Nihilist Violence --
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Notes on the Contributors --
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Names index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110699364
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110698954
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110699210
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110699210
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110699210