Nihilism Now!
ISBN: 9780230597761
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection;

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion...as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.


ELIOT ALBERT Lecturer, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonRICHARD BEARDSWORTH Associate Professor of Modern European Philosophy, American University of ParisDAVID BOOTHROYD Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of TeesideHOWARD CAYGILL Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonJUSTIN CLEMENS MelbourneDANIEL W. CONWAY Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies, Penn State UniversityCATHERINE DALE University of Western SydneyCHRIS FEIK MelbourneJOANNA HODGE Reader in Philosophy and Director of Research, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDANIEL KATZ English Department, University of Picardie in Amiens, FranceSUHAIL MALIK Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmith's College, University of LondonJOHN PROTEVI Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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