The Impertinent Self: A Heroic History of Modernity and Film
Stanford University Press (2009)
| Abstract | Introduction : heroes like us -- Hegel, the western and classical modernity -- The myth and the frontier -- The hero in the epochs of mythical and the bourgeois -- The end of the individual -- The end of the subject -- Romanticism, crime and agonal modernity -- The return of tragedy in modernity -- Heroes of coolness and the ironist -- Nietzsche, science fiction and hybrid modernity -- Heroic individualismus and metaphysics -- Superhumans, supermen, cyborgs -- Heroes of the future. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Heroes in motion pictures Heroes in literature Self (Philosophy Philosophy, Modern | |||||||||
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| Call number | PN1995.9.H44.F7813 2009 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780804757355 | |||||||||
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