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Stanford University Press
Language
English
Pages
252

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Subjects
Self (Philosophy), Heroes in motion pictures, Heroes in literature, Modern Philosophy, Self (philosophy), Philosophy, modern

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The impertinent self: a heroic history of modernity and film
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"An abridged version of the German edition."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Stanford, California
Series
Cultural memory in the present

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/652
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.H44 F7813 2009, PN1995

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
252

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OL22796600M
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ISBN 13
9780804757355, 9780804757362
LCCN
2008053010
OCLC/WorldCat
278980855
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7050855

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