The Opening of Vision: Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation

ISBN-13: 9780415001731 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 480 str.

David Michael Levin; David Michael Kleinberg-Levin; MIC Levin David

Opis

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The origins of contemporary humanitarian action: From the early beginnings to World War II. 2. Humanitarian action in the Cold War and its aftermath 3. Humanitarian action in the twenty-first century 4. Contemporary humanitarian actors 5. Contemporary humanitarian architecture and action 6. Changes in policy and practice 7. Unresolved (and unresolvable?): Understanding the humanitarian world in the twenty-first century

O autorze

David Michael Levin