..., not the librarian) in favor of the fantasy characters that cohabit his mind-world. Refuting wide-spread readings of this “brain in the vat” premise in the denouement as an advocacy of solipsism or nihilism, the author interprets this “end of the world” as the rise of an essentially individualist yet socially...

....—From yes- terday to today.—Nihilism and fatalism.—The division of confidence.— “And yet, this is the eve.” 1 If belief poses the possibility of salvation, and consequently the potential eternity of the subject...

... for critique. Critical Anxieties Roy Starrs, in his Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima, delivers a summation of the sociohistorical figure of Mishima as follows: “Scion of a privileged, upper...

... . [1951b] 1981 . “Kaiko jūnen.: omoiizuru mamani” (“Thoughts on the last ten years: as I remember them”) . In NMz 3 : 349 – 56 . Nibuya Takashi . 1994 . “ Cinema/Nihilism/Freedom .” In The Japan/America Film Wars: WWII Propaganda and Its Cultural Contexts , edited by Nornes Abé Mark...

... the nature of their activities by promulgating liberalism and forming the basis for the eclecti- cism of Jikken Kb. Sharing the Vision: Jikken Ko¯bo¯’s Choice When the intellectual world was filled with postwar nihilism, Jikken K b’s...

... Documentary Movement. Relative to nineteenth- ­century critical realism, Jia Zhangke’s narrative is much calmer, and moral judgments are presented through a documentary style. Compared with the themes of modern nihilism, Jia Zhangke is more absorbed...

... fragmented under the continuing hegemony Tolentino ‚ Positioning positions 167 of the state. As with other modes of closure of narratives in indie cinema, Serbis represents a political nihilism that is able to implicate...

... of the wall. A further methodological analysis of the visual approach of Xu’s work, however, may tell us that it is no more than a surreal visual effect—a grand tangible nihilism. With its outdoor working process, Ghosts Pounding the Wall resembles...

.... But when Ota, for example, writes that “the somber reminder that we have a common fate absolutely forbids us to indulge in either nihilism or easy evasion,”l5 she undoubtedly evokes a being-in-common which might be construed as a certain...

... and an impending nihilism. The infinite variety of things — earth, sun, sea, night, sky, dreams — is not distinguished from annihilation: “the earth is flying away” and “the drawn back horizon” collapses with a cry, the sun “falls in the abyss...

... of the void comes. The most fearsome enemy of the politics of emancipation is not the repression by the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the cruelty without limits which can accompany its void.6 What...

... in a nontheological manner in processes of secular modernity. Compared with traditional theologies, Radical Orthodoxy shifts the focus to secular experience in the modern world. Language, nihilism, desire, eroti- cism, bodies, the city, and aesthetics...

..., the socialists’ panicked reaction ironically reveals the strength of the anarchist criticisms regarding the role of art. The socialist movements of the mid-1920s in Korea indiscriminately mixed Marxism, anarchism, nihilism, Feuerbachism...

...- ment and nihilism. With emphasis on the global competitiveness of the Fili- pinos and their diligence, the succeeding generation of directors used both similar and experimental forms of showcasing poverty but with very little local...

... and Perversion 537 perversion, and fetishism. My deeper theoretical concern is the relation between rationality and materiality in the formation of social values. American Nihilism in the 1980s...

..., or to a convic- tion in the utter uselessness of nationalism as something that has already become a thing of the past in developed countries. Either way, what under- lies it is a sort of national nihilism that says we are a pitiful nation lacking...