Nihilism, modernism & value : three lectures

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Nihilism, modernism & value : three lectures

Title remainder

three lectures

Statement of responsibility

John Fraser

Title variation

Nihilism, modernism and value

Creator

• Fraser, John, 1928-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Fraser, John, 1928-

Subject

• Nihilism in literature
• Electronic books
• Values in literature
• Modernist literature & culture

Language

eng

Summary

Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors- psychological, sociological, philosophical-involved in that destabilizing. But its principal focus is on reintegration, and it draws freely on real-world experiences to illuminate concepts and strategies. Among the writers whose names figure in it are Conrad, Nietzsche, Beckett, Woolf, Heidegger, Rhys, Pushkin, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Lessing, Stevens, Valry, and James (William), with particular attention at one point to Kafka and Borges. But no prior knowledge of them is required for following the argument, with its numerous lively quotations. The author himself is advancing heuristically, not just performing an academic exercise. The problems confronted are as relevant still as they were generations ago

Cataloging source

Midwest

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult