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The impertinent self: a heroic history of modernity and film
2009, Stanford University Press
in English
0804757356 9780804757355
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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.
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"An abridged version of the German edition."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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