The Opening of Vision: Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation

by David Michael Levin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415001731
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/05/1988
Pages:	572
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Michael Levin

Table of Contents

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