- Uniform Title
- Nuovi demoni. English
- Series
- Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Forti, Simona, author.
- Published
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
- Contents
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Part I. Absolute demons : the power of nothingness. The Dostoevsky paradigm ; Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud ; Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil ; Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics ; Thanatopolitics and absolute victims
Part II. Mediocre demons : toward a new paradigm. The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below ; A different genealogy : the evil of docility ; Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom ; Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe ; Poor devils who "worship" life : us.
- Notes
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Includes index.
"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Absolute demons : the power of nothingness. The Dostoevsky paradigm ; Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud ; Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil ; Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics ; Thanatopolitics and absolute victims -- Part II. Mediocre demons : toward a new paradigm. The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below ; A different genealogy : the evil of docility ; Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom ; Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe ; Poor devils who "worship" life : us.
Translated from the Italian.
