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Modern Nihilism. Chronicle

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Modern Nihilism. Chronicle
14.99 €
Contemporary nihilism is both an open question, a new everydayness, and a product of consumer society. How has a form of thinking that was revolutionary and daring in the past led us to the silent constant of "no values and no ideals"? To deny and look for nothing - now, in the most complex realities - is a dead end or liberation? Costantino Esposito, an Italian academic and professor of philosophy at the University of Bari, chronicles this phenomenon and shows how nihilism is highlighted in elements of contemporary culture. These include conversations with students and reflections on texts by Wallace, McCarthy, Houellebecq, Roth, Heidegger and Nietzsche, paintings by Albert Burri and Lucho Fontana, even the TV series True Detective and the animated film The Puzzle. The author has given readers in this troubling time a therapeutic and uplifting text that glimmers in the darkness.
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