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Violence and Nihilism (Hardcover)
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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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