224 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of the Enlightenment, is therefore... Read more
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
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Slocombe, William
