Essays Tagged: "nihilistic"
Two brands of nihilism
is essay will study in further detail Nietzsche view ofSchopenhauer and Christianity as essentially nihilistic.NihilismThroughout his work Nietzsche makes extensive use of the term "nihilism". Intexts ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
My search for a meaningful existence
I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic, insatiable, petty, apathetic and I am above all an emotional ... repidation, because I'm not sure I'm ready to shoulder such a profound responsibility. I live in a nihilistic society, that is founded on man's narcissistic will to pleasure and power, that is run by ... Search for a Meaningful Existence I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic, insatiable, petty, apathetic and I am above all an emotional ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
If William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is a bleak nihilistic play or a hopeful one. This is a very informative well written essay.
King Lear: Is Lear a bleak, nihilistic play, or a hopeful one?The play King Lear can easily be portrayed as one that is bleak, a ... der to give hope. This is the plays primary message. Although the play King Lear seems like a bleak nihilistic play it is actually one that can teach us about hope and loyalty.Throughout the play Lear ... ys hope no matter how bad a situation.The play of King Lear, could easily be interpreted as a bleak nihilistic play because of all the betrayal and malice that many of the characters show, but this is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
"Artist frequently break traditions in order to challenge the audience's perception" - agree/disagree. Present your point of view using evidence, including artists and their works
Dada produced many of the most anarchic, playful, antibourgeois, anti-rational, confrontational and nihilistic works made during the twentieth century. Dada began as an indictment of the bourgeois val ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Philosophy Mid-term on Nietzche Promt: identify a philosophical idea that you think has had the most significant consequences in terms of how it affected later aspects of life.
g to Nietzche. Creative lying is noble lying, as long as those lies affirm life--all other lies are nihilistic and bad.To express will to power, one forces reality to bend to one's own will. Will to p ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Film Noir Conventions in The Maltese Falcon
oir is John Huston' movie, The Maltese Falcon. One of the first detective films to use the shadowy, nihilistic noir style in a definitive way was the pivotal work of novice director John Huston in the ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Pandoras Box: Have Postmodern Artists Gone too Far?
psychological processes." Many scholars and artists alike, believe this new artistic movement to be nihilistic and, at times, gratuitous. Art, a non-static entity, has undergone several significant me ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd
method of drama, a revelation immortalised in his short play, Krapp's last tape. He saw a pointedly nihilistic vision of every organising philosophic principle in our life. He saw them all as archaic ... ast destruction of great swaths of Europe became prevalent, no doubt enforcing Beckett's gloomy and nihilistic outlook.'If a good play must have a cleverly constructed story, these have no story or pl ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Albert Camus' "The Stranger". This essay was about the ultimate conclusion of death to ones life.
lthough society defines people by actions, Meursault rejects ideas of categorization and embraces a nihilistic view of life. This judgment passed on individuals is based on an individual's actions. Me ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Pandoras Box: Have Postmodern Artists Gone too Far?
psychological processes." Many scholars and artists alike, believe this new artistic movement to be nihilistic and, at times, gratuitous. Art, a non-static entity, has undergone several significant me ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
"Grendel" by John Gardner: Questions
old and sit on it".After his visit with the Dragon we find that Grendel is far more existential and nihilistic as a result of the Dragon's interview. Grendel is different because he believes what the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American