By Bülent Diken
ISBN-10: 0415452171
ISBN-13: 9780415452175
ISBN-10: 041545218X
ISBN-13: 9780415452182
Most major difficulties of latest lifestyles have their origins in nihilism and its paradoxical common sense, that's concurrently harmful to and constitutive of society. but, in social conception, nihilism is a shockingly under-researched subject.
This booklet develops a scientific account of nihilism in its 4 major types: escapism, radical nihilism, passive nihilism and 'perfect nihilism.' It focuses particularly at the disjunctive synthesis among passive nihilism (the negation of the need) and radical nihilism (the will to negation), among the hedonism/disorientation that characterizes the modern post-political tradition and the rising kinds of melancholy and violence as a response to it.
The publication bargains with nihilism at 3 degrees. First, it addresses the family tree and effects of nihilism, that's via an excursus via movie research. Then the e-book specializes in the 'social,' touching on nihilism to capitalism, post-politics and terrorism. one other excursus fleshes out the theoretical argumens by means of targeting Houellebecq's fiction. eventually, the probabilities of overcoming nihilism are thought of via emphasizing the importance of strategies equivalent to occasion, agonism and antagonism during this context.
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