E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten
E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten
Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 978-1-135-48935-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
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History
1. Ex nihilo: Constructing Nihilism
Generating Nihilism
Humanist Nihilism
Anti-Authoritarian Nihilism
Anti-Humanist Nihilism
Authoritarian Nihilism
2. Stylising the Sublime
Sublime Texts and their Contexts
The Burkean Formulation of the Sublime
The Kantian Formulation of the Sublime
The Romantic Sublime
Theory
3. Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern
A Postmodern Enlightenment?
The Sublime Postmodern I: Lyotard and the Unpresentable
Nihilism and the Lyotardian Sublime
The Sublime Postmodern II: Baudrillard and the Hyperreal
Nihilism and the Baudrillardian Sublime
4. Postmodern Nihilism
Nihilism and Poststructuralism
Nihilism and Postmodernism
A 'Postmodern' Nihilism
Praxis
5. Postmodern Nihilism and Postmodern Aesthetics
Postmodern Absurdity
Everything is Constructed: From Time to Space
Nothing is Constructed: From Space to Non-Space
6. Postmodern Nihilism and Postmodern Ethics
Blank Fiction: The 'Ethical Nihilism' of Postmodernity
(En)Gendering Absence
Being 'Absent-Minded': 'Towards an 'Ethical' Nihilism