عنوان

What Is Life? An Examination of Nihilists Within Libertarian Western Modern Literature and Film

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TLpq2362230533

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What Is Life? An Examination of Nihilists Within Libertarian Western Modern Literature and Film

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Schwartz, Morissa

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Butts, Bob;Winters, Laura

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Drew University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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123

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D.Litt.

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Drew University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

The decline of community and religion, combined with the subsequent rise of individuality and technology, has greatly affected literature and film as they are vehicles for societal critique. This text will explore these changes through popular works written from a nihilistic and libertarian point of view, including novel and film adaptations of A Clockwork Orange, No Country for Old Men, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, American Psycho, Fahrenheit 451, and Kickass. This will begin with an academic definition of libertarianism and nihilism and how the two schools of thought have shaped modern literature. The thesis will then use those definitions to assume that there is no meaning essentially bound to man's existence in the ways that organized religion and community espouse. Building upon that fact, literary characters then create their own meaning through other avenues. The text will then explore the implications of this creative approach to meaning through the following topics: consumerism, drugs, violence, art and education, relationships, work, and the fight against adversity. The text will conclude with observations on the future of this philosophy in literature, paying explicit attention to how these methods of thinking will affect future generations.

Anarchy in books and movies

Libertarian movies

Libertarians in pop culture

Nihilist movies

Nihilistic libertarian

Nihilists in pop culture

Butts, Bob

Schwartz, Morissa

Winters, Laura

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