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Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism

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  1. Shane Weller
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: What’s in a Name?

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 1-10

  3. Absolute Devaluation: Friedrich Nietzsche

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 11-34

  4. Homelessness: Martin Heidegger

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 35-62

  5. Fatal Positivities: Theodor Adorno

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 63-85

  6. The Naïve Calculation of the Negative: Maurice Blanchot

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 86-110

  7. Bad Violence: Jacques Derrida

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 111-136

  8. The Fracture: Giorgio Agamben

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 137-162

  9. Distortions, or Nihilism Against Itself: Gianni Vattimo

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 163-185

  10. The Denial of (Greek) Thought: Alain Badiou

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 186-211

  11. Conclusion: Nihilism at the Door

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 212-215

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 216-234
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About this book

This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche.

About the author

SHANE WELLER is Reader in Comparative Literature in the School of European Culture and Languages 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 The Flesh in the Text (2007, co-edited with Thomas Baldwin and James Fowler).

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