Aguiar de Sousa / Stellino Violence and Nihilism

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-069936-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 327 Seiten

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).

Zielgruppe

Scholars, institutes, libraries in Philosophy / Wissenschaftler, Institute, Bibliotheken in Philosophie

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aguiar de Sousa, Luís

Stellino, Paolo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Luís Aguiar de Sousa, Neue Universität Lissabon, Portugal, Paolo Stellino, Neue Universität Lissabon, Portugal.

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