This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of the Enlightenment, is therefore implicitly related to "both "nihilism "and "the sublime, despite the fact that it is often characterised as "either "nihilistic "or "sublime. Whereas prior forms of nihilism are 'modernist' because...