Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of ModernityGary Banham, Charlie Blake Incorporating 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. |
Contents
epistemotopology of the demon | 22 |
The God of Evil Alphonso Lingis | 52 |
Nietzsches demonic nihilism Jill Marsden | 94 |
learning to live with death | 124 |
the primitive ontology of Heideggers | 165 |
Hegel Blake and the advent | 195 |
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