William Slocombe

Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of the Enlightenment, is therefore implicitly related to both nihilism and the sublime, despite the fact that it is often characterised as either nihilistic or sublime. Whereas prior forms of nihilism are 'modernist' because they seek to codify reality, postmodernism creates a new formulation of nihilism - 'postmodern nihilism' - that is itself sublime. This is explored in relation to a broad survey of postmodern literature in two chapters, the first on aesthetics and the second on ethics. It offers a coherent thesis for reappraising the relationship between nihilism and the sublime, and grounds this argument with frequent references to postmodern literature, making it a book suitable for both researchers and those more generally interested in postmodern literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135489281
• Artikelnr.: 39993513

Autorenporträt

Slocombe, William

Inhaltsangabe

History 1. Ex nihilo : Constructing Nihilism Generating Nihilism Humanist
Nihilism Anti-Authoritarian Nihilism Anti-Humanist Nihilism Authoritarian
Nihilism 2. Stylising the Sublime Sublime Texts and their Contexts The
Burkean Formulation of the Sublime The Kantian Formulation of the Sublime
The Romantic Sublime Theory 3. Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern A
Postmodern Enlightenment? The Sublime Postmodern I: Lyotard and the
Unpresentable Nihilism and the Lyotardian Sublime The Sublime Postmodern
II: Baudrillard and the Hyperreal Nihilism and the Baudrillardian Sublime
4. Postmodern Nihilism Nihilism and Poststructuralism Nihilism and
Postmodernism A 'Postmodern' Nihilism Praxis 5. Postmodern Nihilism and
Postmodern Aesthetics Postmodern Absurdity Everything is Constructed: From
Time to Space Nothing is Constructed: From Space to Non-Space 6. Postmodern
Nihilism and Postmodern Ethics Blank Fiction: The 'Ethical Nihilism' of
Postmodernity (En)Gendering Absence Being 'Absent-Minded': 'Towards an
'Ethical' Nihilism