Browsing by Subject "Nihilism"

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    • The aesthetic turn in the face of nihilism 
      Craig, Benjamin Taylor (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)
      This thesis outlines one's overcoming of nihilism by consulting two figures, Martin Heidegger and John Dewey. Each thinker holds a pivotal role for art, such that, a turn to the aesthetic allows the individual to overcome ...
    • Writing on the Streets: Popular Literature and the Bad Black Hero 
      Winston, Dennis 1979- (2012-12-10)
      This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the “bad nigger” figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives ...