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Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 31 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9781474443364
      978-1474443364
      ISBN-10 1474443362
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Philosophy: aesthetics Social and political philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

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