SHANE WELLER  is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature 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 Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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• Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, Nihilism PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL MODERNISM AND NIHILISM From the French Revolution to Nietzsche Nietzsche's Long Shadow PART II: AESTHETIC MODERNISM AND NIHILISM From Flaubert to Dada Kafka and After PART III: POSTMODERNISM AND NIHILISM Our Only Chance? Bibliography Index