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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
    Publication Date: 31/05/2022
    ISBN13: 9781474443364, 978-1474443364
    ISBN10: 1474443362
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Politics, Philosophy & Society 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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