Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of ModernityIncorporating a diversity of approaches from a variety of disciplines, this book provides a major reassessment of the question of nihilism in modernity and interrogates this through the growing interest in angels and demons in contemporary philosophy. The collection examines the uncanny return of angelic and demonic principles in current cultural production and thinking and aims to show that the repression of thought about spiritual entities at the onset of modernity is linked to the appearance of a new form of evil that manifests itself through nihilism. |
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Plotino al cristianesimo e al romanticismo, la creazione artistica secondo il filosofo Sergio Givone
questa prospettiva accadrà che gli artisti si pongano come emuli di Dio: dapprima imitandolo e poi sostituendolo. Una vicenda secolare destinata ad aprire inedite prospettive religiose prima ancora che estetiche: si pensi alla musica sacra
Contents
epistemotopology of the demon | 22 |
The God of Evil Alphonso Lingis | 40 |
Nietzsches demonic nihilism Jill Marsden | 72 |
inverts and their dogs Diane Morgan | 89 |
Deleuze and the threat of demonic nihilism James Williams | 107 |
learning to live with death | 124 |
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| Title | Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity Angelaki humanities |
| Editors | Gary Banham, Charlie Blake |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0719056438, 9780719056437 |
| Length | 228 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General Philosophy / Metaphysics |
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