After studying at the universities of Oxford and Yale, Professor Shane Weller taught at Oxford before taking up a post in Comparative Literature at Kent. Shane’s publications include the following books: A Taste for the Negative (), Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (), Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism (), Modernism. · Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons is about many things--parents and children, a fading social order and an emerging new one, romantic love--but the heart of the novel around which all else is arranged is the nihilism of the young medical student Yevgeny Bazarov. Indeed, in his book Modernism and Nihilism, Shane Weller writes that it was Fathers and Sons more than any other . SHANE WELLER is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihili sm (), Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (), and Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, ).Author: Shane Weller.
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At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to its place in recent theorizations of the postmodern. Key moments in that history include the. SHANE WELLER is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihili sm (), Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (), and Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, ). For Critchley, the story of nihilism is the story of what it means to be modern, and to read the philology of nihilism, of the nihil, is to look through a lens at modernity’s underside. Shane Weller’s survey of the web of relations between Modernism and Nihilism proceeds from the same supposition. His book unpicks the thread where it’s at.
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