Nihilism Now!

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. The Shattering of the Crystal Spheres: ‘rolling from the centre toward X’

   • Eliot Albert

   Pages 1-17

3. Nihilism, Tonight…

   • Justin Clemens, Chris Feik

   Pages 18-36

4. Nietzsche, Nihilism and Spirit

   • Richard Beardsworth

   Pages 37-69

5. The Monstrous Rebirth of Nihilism

   • Joanna Hodge

   Pages 70-85

6. Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger’s Nietzsche

   • Suhail Malik

   Pages 86-116

7. Revisiting the Will to Power: Active Nihilism and the Project of Trans-human Philosophy

   • Daniel Conway

   Pages 117-141

8. ‘Provoked Life’: Expressing Nihilism

   • Diane Morgan

   Pages 142-166

9. A Problem of Pure Matter: Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus

   • John Protevi

   Pages 167-188

10. The Survival of Nihilism

    • Howard Caygill

    Pages 189-197

11. Skin-Nihilism Now: Flaying the Face and Refiguring the Skin

    • David Boothroyd

    Pages 198-215

12. Artaud and the Importance of Being Rude

    • Catherine Dale

    Pages 216-234

13. ‘Epidemics of Enough’: Beckettian Sufficiencies

    • Daniel Katz

    Pages 235-248

14. Back Matter

    Pages 249-252

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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.

• Beckett
• body
• corpus
• energy
• fascism
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• future
• Martin Heidegger
• nature
• nihilism
• philosophy
• project
• prose
• religion

'Nihilism Now! Monsters of Energy provides the perfect opportunity for us to reflect on, to refresh and dynamize the forces of nihilism that Nietzsche both admonished and admired, those nihilistic forces that mark modernity and its postmodern consequences. This book addresses the question of how to live productively, and without disavowal, in the face of a cultural and epistemic nihilism that both threatens all joy in and of the future and yet acts as a counterforce to the self-satisfactions of the past and present. It asks us to revel in an active nihilism that overcomes the passivity of social, political and moral nihilism that pervades much of contemporary culture.' - Professor Elizabeth Grosz, SUNY at Albany

• University of Warwick, UK

  Keith Ansell Pearson

• University College Northampton, UK

  Diane Morgan

ELIOT ALBERT Lecturer, Goldsmith's College, University of London RICHARD BEARDSWORTH Associate Professor of Modern European Philosophy, American University of Paris DAVID BOOTHROYD Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Teeside HOWARD CAYGILL Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmith's College, University of London JUSTIN CLEMENS Melbourne DANIEL W. CONWAY Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies, Penn State University CATHERINE DALE University of Western Sydney CHRIS FEIK Melbourne JOANNA HODGE Reader in Philosophy and Director of Research, Manchester Metropolitan University DANIEL KATZ English Department, University of Picardie in Amiens, France SUHAIL MALIK Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmith's College, University of London JOHN PROTEVI Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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