Evil spirits : nihilism and the fate of modernity
This collection provides a major reassessment of the question of nihilism in modernity. It has a multi-focal approach, looking at the return of angelic and demonic principles in current cultural production and thinking. It also makes a claim for another interpretation of modernity.
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 2000
ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm
9780719056420, 9780719056437, 071905642X, 0719056438
45856605
Mourning Satan / Gary Banham
Kierkegaard's writing machines: epistemotopology of the demon / Joanna Hodge
The God of Evil / Alphonso Lingis
The gravity of angels: space, time and the ecstasy of annihiliation Charlie Blake
Interminable intensity: Nietzsche's demonic nihilism / Jill Marsden
'An angel on all fours': 'inverts' and their dogs / Diane Morgan
Deleuze and the threat of demonic nihilism / James Williams
Spectropoiesis and rhizomatics: learning to live with death and demons / Keith Ansell Pearson
Freud's spectres / Antony Easthope
Unfamiliar haunts: the primitive ontology of Heidegger's Der Spiegel interview / Daniel Conway
The spiritual daylight of the present: Hegel, Blake and the advent of spirit / Howard Caygill
The contemporary city of angels / Graham Ward