Pub Date: September 11, 2008
Dewey: 149.8
LCCN: 2008016425
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.50" L x 5.40" W ( 0.90 lbs) 234 pages
BISAC Categories:
Literary Criticism | Semiotics and Theory | Philosophy | Movements | General | History and Surveys | Modern | Hermeneutics
Description: 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.