Evil Spirits

Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity

• Author(s): Gary Banham, Charlie Blake,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 0719056438
  ISBN_13: 9780719056437
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Metaphysics , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Incorporating a diversity of approaches from a variety of disciplines, this book provides a major reassessment of the question of nihilism in modernity and interrogates this through the growing interest in angels and demons in contemporary philosophy. The collection examines the uncanny return of angelic and demonic principles in current cultural production and thinking and aims to show that the repression of thought about spiritual entities at the onset of modernity is linked to the appearance of a new form of evil that manifests itself through nihilism.