Date of Award
Spring 2023
Thesis Type
Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Liberal Studies
Department
Philosophy
Advisor(s)
Tom Cook
Second Advisor
Margaret McLaren
Abstract
This thesis takes an in-depth look at the problem of nihilism in the Modern and Postmodern world. It uses the theories proposed by French philosopher Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel to analyze the birth of nihilism and its development in the Western World. This thesis also gives a literary analysis of the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky Osamu Dazai, and the film Everything Everywhere All at Once in relation to Camus’s work to show how art has been used over the past two centuries to combat the pervasive force of nihilism.
Recommended Citation
Foley, Taylor, "Nihilism and Rebellion: Anti-nihilistic Art in the Modern and Postmodern World" (2023). Master of Liberal Studies Theses. 109.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/109