Nihilism now! : monsters of energy / edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Diane Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 1960-

Morgan, Diane, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nihilism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed "what is to be done?" All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a "postmodern" lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to "think" engagedly. Hence the contributors here draw on a variety of issues--the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religions--as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.

Contents:

Introduction: the Return of Monstrous Nihilism

1. The Shattering of the Crystal Spheres: 'rolling from the centre toward X' / Eliot Albert

2. Nihilism Tonight... / Justin Clemens and Chris Feik

3. Nietzsche, Nihilism and Spirit / Richard Beardsworth

4. The Monstrous Rebirth of Nihilism / Joanna Hodge

5. Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger's Nietzsche / Suhail Malik

6. Revisiting the Will to Power: Active Nihilism and the Project of Trans-human Philosophy / Daniel Conway

7. 'Provoked Life': Expressing Nihilism / Diane Morgan

8. A Problem of Pure Matter: Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus / John Protevi

9. The Survival of Nihilism / Howard Caygill

10. Skin-Nihilism Now: Flaying the Face and Refiguring the Skin / David Boothroyd

11. Artaud and the Importance of Being Rude / Catherine Dale

12. 'Epidemics of Enough': Beckettian Sufficiencies / Daniel Katz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333732928

0312232098

OCLC:

45544924