Sökning: "value nihilism"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden value nihilism.
1. Samtal med den värdefulla naturen : Ett studium av miljöetiken hos Knud Lõgstrup, Holmes Rolston III och Hans Jonas
Sammanfattning : This thesis has three aims. One aim is to explain and analyse the environmental ethics of Rolston, Jonas and Lögstrup. A second aim is to compare and criticize their environmental ethics. A third aim is to put forward a personal proposal for an acceptable formulation of a weakly biocentrical environmental ethic. LÄS MER
2. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism : Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the predominantly German pessimistic tradition in the philosophy of the late nineteenth century, and of Nietzsche’s complex relation to that tradition. The aim of the dissertation is firstly to analyse how pessimism came to be established as a philosophical concept by Schopenhauer and a later generation of pessimistic thinkers, and secondly to investigate how Nietzsche understood pessimism. LÄS MER
3. Spatial Structures in Conrad’s Universe : The Tension between Opening and Closing as a Literary Device
Sammanfattning : Many attempts have been made to catch the essence of Joseph Conrad’s work by examining the contents of his ideas. This thesis argues instead that the important factor is the preferred spatial structures of his world-views and the interplay between them. LÄS MER
4. Nollpunkten : Precisionens betydelse hos Witold Gombrowicz, Inger Christensen och Herta Müller
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines precision as an aesthetic concept and practice in texts by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Inger Christensen (1935–2009) and Herta Müller (1953–). Although often referred to in contemporary criticism as a marker of aesthetic value, precision in literature has rarely been the subject of academic study. LÄS MER