Violence and Nihilism

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Violence and Nihilism

Enthält: Frontmatter
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Philosophy and Politics
Nihilism and Violence from Plato to Arendt
Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Stage and the Ideology of Nihilism
“To smear his boots with the other’s fat”: Conscious and Unconscious Violence
Cruelty, Bad Conscience, and the Sovereign Individual in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality
Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory in the Times of Platform Nihilism
‘Like ants’: The Mafia’s Necropolitics as a Paradigm of Nihilistic Violence
Against the Kinship: State, Terror, Nihilism
Part 2: Literature and Film
Nihilism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Thought
Violence, Evil and Nihilism: Nietzschean Traces in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas
Signifying Nothing? Nihilism, Violence, and the Sound/Silence Dynamic in Cinema
Aestheticizing Murder: Hitchcock’s Rope, Nietzsche, and the Alleged Right to Crime of Superior Individuals
Nihilism, Violence, and the Films of Michael Haneke
“Supposing Truth is a Woman?”: Nihilism and Violence in Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and Von Trier’s Antichrist
“Is Something Funny, Asshole?”: Joker’s Nihilist Violence
Notes on the Contributors
Names index

Beteiligte: Aguiar de Sousa, Luís [HerausgeberIn]; Stellino, Paolo [HerausgeberIn]

Erschienen: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 321 pages)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9783110699210

ISBN: 9783110699210

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RVK-Notation: EC 5410 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive

Schlagwörter: Gewalt > Nihilismus > Philosophie > Politik > Literatur > Film

Reproduktionsnotiz: Issued also in print

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious authority, then what does stop him from committing any kind of crime? Dostoevsky precisely called attention to this danger: if there is no God and no immortality of the soul, then everything is permitted, even anthropophagy. Nietzsche, too, emphasised, although in different terms, the consequences deriving from the death of God and the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality. This context shaped the way in which philosophers, writers and artists thought about violence, in its different manifestations, during the 20th century. The goal of this interdisciplinary volume is to explore the various modern and contemporary configurations of the link between violence and nihilism as understood by philosophers and artists (in both literature and film)

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