Violence and Nihilism

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Violence and Nihilism

Edited by: Luís Aguiar de Sousa and Paolo Stellino

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210

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About this book

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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Luís Aguiar de Sousa, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, Paolo Stellino, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Philosophy and Politics
Nihilism and Violence from Plato to Arendt Nolen Gertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Stage and the Ideology of Nihilism George Pattison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
“To smear his boots with the other’s fat”: Conscious and Unconscious Violence Luca Lupo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Cruelty, Bad Conscience, and the Sovereign Individual in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality Luís Aguiar de Sousa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory in the Times of Platform Nihilism Agata Mergler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
‘Like ants’: The Mafia’s Necropolitics as a Paradigm of Nihilistic Violence Gianfranco Ferraro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Against the Kinship: State, Terror, Nihilism Francescomaria Tedesco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Part 2: Literature and Film
Nihilism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Thought Derek Offord Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Violence, Evil and Nihilism: Nietzschean Traces in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas Marco Piazza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Signifying Nothing? Nihilism, Violence, and the Sound/Silence Dynamic in Cinema Joseph G. Kickasola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Aestheticizing Murder: Hitchcock’s Rope, Nietzsche, and the Alleged Right to Crime of Superior Individuals Paolo Stellino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Nihilism, Violence, and the Films of Michael Haneke Kevin Stoehr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
“Supposing Truth is a Woman?”: Nihilism and Violence in Nietzsche’s The Antichrist and Von Trier’s Antichrist John Marmysz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
“Is Something Funny, Asshole?”: Joker’s Nihilist Violence Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Names index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler, Institute, Bibliotheken in Philosophie
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 321
Keywords: Violence; Nihilism; Ethics; Cultural studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110699210

Hardcover

Published: July 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110698954