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Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism - by Shane Weller (Hardcover)

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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.
About the Author: SHANE WELLER is Reader in Comparative Literature in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, UK.
234 Pages
Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory

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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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Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 234

Genre: Literary Criticism

Sub-Genre: Semiotics & Theory

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Format: Hardcover

Author: Shane Weller

Language: English

Street Date: September 11, 2008

TCIN: 1006476044

UPC: 9780230551541

Item Number (DPCI): 247-34-6612

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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