This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion...as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.
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Keith Ansell Pearson; Diane Morgan (Eds.)

Macmillan Publishers Limited

Macmillan Education UK

St. Martin's Press

Campbell Books Ltd

Springer Nature

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1st ed. 2000, London, 2000

Basingstoke, 2000

1, 20000704

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Memory of the World Librarian: George Luis Bataille

For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. In this 'postmodern' world all is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, nothing new is seen under the sun. Such a lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. The contributors draw on the variety of topical issues including the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body and religion as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now. They take as their lead Nietzsche's suggestion that this world is a 'monster of energy, without beginning or end' without, for all that, naively assuming that this world possesses an infinite novelty or miraculous power of regeneration. Neither dully resigned to uninventive and ultimately entropic repetition of the same, nor believing in an inexhaustible fund of resources which will inevitably save the world from destruction, this collection hopes to encourage debate on the meaning of value at the begining of the new millennium

Contents 6
Notes on the Contributors 7
Introduction: the Return of Monstrous Nihilism by Keith Ansell Pearson and Diane Morgan 9
1. The Shattering of the Crystal Spheres: ‘rolling from the centre toward X’ by Eliot Albert 23
2. Nihilism, Tonight . . . by Justin Clemens and Chris Feik 40
3. Nietzsche, Nihilism and Spirit by Richard Beardsworth 59
4. The Monstrous Rebirth of Nihilism by Joanna Hodge 92
5. Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger's Nietzsche by Suhail Malik 108
6. Revisiting the Will to Power: Active Nihilism and the Project of Transhuman Philosophy by Daniel Conway 139
7. ‘Provoked Life’: Expressing Nihilism by Diane Morgan 164
8. A Problem of Pure Matter: Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus by John Protevi 189
9. The Survival of Nihilism by Howard Caygill 211
10. Skin-Nihilism Now: Flaying the Face and Refiguring the Skin by David Boothroyd 220
11. Artaud and the Importance of Being Rude by Catherine Dale 238
12. ‘Epidemics of Enough’: Beckettian Sufficiencies by Daniel Katz 257
Index 271

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion ... as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now

2025-10-27