Modernism and Nihilism

by Shane Weller

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230231047
• ISBN13: 9780230231047
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"