Nihilism Now!

Monsters of Energy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-05
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:469 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333732922

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Mer om författaren

KEITH ANSELL PEARSON teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. - DIANE MORGAN is a lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at University College Northampton. She is the author of Kant/Trouble: The Obscurities of the Enlightened.

Recensioner i media

'Nihilism Now! Monsters of Energy provides the perfect opportunity for us to reflect on, to refresh and dynamize the forces of nihilism that Nietzsche both admonished and admired, those nihilistic forces that mark modernity and its postmodern consequences. This book addresses the question of how to live productively, and without disavowal, in the face of a cultural and epistemic nihilism that both threatens all joy in and of the future and yet acts as a counterforce to the self-satisfactions of the past and present. It asks us to revel in an active nihilism that overcomes the passivity of social, political and moral nihilism that pervades much of contemporary culture.' - Professor Elizabeth Grosz, SUNY at Albany

Innehållsförteckning

Editors' Introduction: The Return of Monstrous Nihilism The Shattering of the Crystal Spheres: Rolling from the Centre Towards X: E.Albert Nihilism Tonight...: J.Clemens & C.Feik Nietzsche, Nihilism and Spirit; R.Beardsworth The Monstrous Rebirth of Nihilism; J.Hodge Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger's Nietzsche: S.Malik Revisiting the Will to Power: Active Nihilism and the Project of Transhuman Philosophy; D.Conway 'Provoked Life': Expressing Nihilism; D.Morgan A Problem of Pure Matter: Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus; J.Protevi The Survival of Nihilism; H.Caygill Discomboberate Skinihilation: Flaying the Face; D.Boothroyd Artaud and the Importance of Being Rude; C.Dale 'Epidemics of Enough': Beckettian Sufficiencies; D.Katz Index