|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
This review is from: The Literature of Nihilism (Hardcover)
This book is a major achievement in the field of nihilistic research, both within life and within literature. Glicksberg's introduction itself is a profound and insightful analysis of nihilistic life and the problems of such. What purpose is there to life if life itself is meaningless, truth and absolutes having become delegitimated? How does a writer who engages his/her characters in a nihilistic universe find meaning in his/her work, "realizing as he does so that literature is in itself but a symbolic confrontation of reality that can illuminate but cannot solve his existential conflict" (18)? The nihilist finds himself resolved to an existentialist frame of mind, Christianity being but another attempt to impose order on a universe governed by entropy. So, "[i]f all things begin and end in naught, then why strive, why live, why perpetuate the race" (14)? I believe that this book, as well as the philosophy of nihilism, addresses questions that are prevalent in our (post)modern society. A must read for anyone who questions the absurdity and paradoxes of life.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
The Literature of Nihilism by Charles Irving Glicksberg (Hardcover - Nov. 1975)
Used & New from: $23.43
| |
| ||
