Weller, Shane (2011) Modernism and Nihilism. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-23103-0. (doi:10.1057/9780230294622) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28657)
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Abstract
At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to its place in recent theorizations of the postmodern. Key moments in that history include the concept’s appropriation by political activists in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, by Nietzsche in the 1880s, by the European avant-garde and ‘high’ modernists in the early decades of the twentieth century, by conservative revolutionaries in Germany in the interwar years, and by major theorists in the post-Holocaust period. Focusing in particular on the abiding impact of Nietzsche’s claim that art is the ‘only superior counterforce’ to nihilism, I argue that an understanding of modernism (and, indeed, of postmodernism) is impossible without a reflection upon the decisive role played by the concept of nihilism therein.
Item Type: | Book |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1057/9780230294622 |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Shane Weller |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2012 15:04 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:10 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28657 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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