Literature and psychoanalysis are put into dialogue in order to perform an innovative reading of Machado de Assis's The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas,which is considered one of his masterpieces,alongside Quincas Bo...
In this article,Mocombe highlights what he calls the pathological-pathogenic purposive-rationalities(liberalism,nihilism,conservatism,postmodernism,intersectionality/identity politics,and secular humanism)that emerge ...
This paper draws many parallels between Guy Debord‟s Society of the Spectacle and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche particularly Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spake Zarathustra in anticipating and predicting the r...
In this paper,we try to understand the difference in approach of the Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean philosophers with regard to the notions of life and will,by highlighting the distance that separates them.Beyond hig...
With its presentation of the apocalyptic view of the world of four agonized survivors,Endgame conveys a strong sense of nihilism:the futility of existence,the universal misery,human’s suffering,hopelessness and despa...
Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the outstanding female writers of the American South in the 20 th century.Her works not only reveal to readers a world of nihilism,but also describe a society of original sins.Ni...
This paper sets forth the reasons why Nietzsche thought nihilism to be inevitable from the perspective of the tenacity of the intentional.Through distinguishing two ordered intentional states—first-order and high-or...
This paper presents a comparative analysis on Chen Yingzhen's "Wo de didi Kangxiong" ("My brother Kangxiong') and Wang Shangyi's "Ye gezi de huanghun" ("Wild pigeon's dusk") in the cultural-historical c...
Many clinicians would agree that a vegetative outcome is a fate worse than death after a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). In an effort to avoid poor outcomes of this nature, neurotrauma practitioners draw from t...