Argues for the pivotal importance of Lyotard in light of the emerging discipline of posthumanism. Ashley Woodward presents a series of studies to explain Lyotard's specific interventions in information theory, new media arts and the changing nature of the human. He assesses thei…
A defence of nihilism
by Llanera, Tracy, Tartaglia, James
fromRoutledge focus on philosophy
Much Ado About Nothing -- A Brief History Of Nihilism -- Nil Desperandum -- Nihil Sine Deo -- Revaluating Nihilism. "This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers an…
A defence of nihilism
by Llanera, Tracy, Tartaglia, James
fromRoutledge focus on philosophy
"This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers and religious leaders to indicate a widespread cultural crisis of truth, meaning, or morals. Many religious believers t…
A defence of nihilism
by Llanera, Tracy, Tartaglia, James
fromRoutledge focus on philosophy
"This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers and religious leaders to indicate a widespread cultural crisis of truth, meaning, or morals. Many religious believers t…
This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and bi…