1st Edition

The Opening of Vision Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation

By David Michael Levin Copyright 1988
    572 Pages
    by Routledge

    572 Pages
    by Routledge

    Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision.

    Introduction 1. The origins of contemporary humanitarian action: From the early beginnings to World War II. 2. Humanitarian action in the Cold War and its aftermath 3. Humanitarian action in the twenty-first century 4. Contemporary humanitarian actors 5. Contemporary humanitarian architecture and action 6. Changes in policy and practice 7. Unresolved (and unresolvable?): Understanding the humanitarian world in the twenty-first century

    Biography

    David Michael Levin