Nihilism Modernism And Value

Download or read book Modernism and Nihilism written by S. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism.