#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #nietzsche Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Week 3 An introduction to the implications of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche for Contemporary Literary Theory. This lecture focuses on Nietzsche's notion of the death of God and of the history of nihilism on later literary theory. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CcANDqhiXIlfYM83bFk4qA8ejI6Dm6D3/view?usp=sharing Course Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 0:30 - What is Nihilism 2:00 - Types of Nihilism: Epistemological, Political (reference to Turgenev), Ethical or Existential 5:55 - Nietzsche's Historical Nihilism 17:10 - God is Dead 26:22 - Heidegger: Nihilism and the History of Being 27:50 - Strauss: Nihilism and the Three Waves of Modernity 28:30 - Barthes and Foucault: The Death of the Author; and of the Human Subject 29:50 - Braidotti: the Death of the Human What We Get Wrong About Nietzsche's Nihilism: https://voegelinview.com/what-we-get-wrong-about-nietzsches-nihilism/ Related Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsoS2917N0&t=1448s&pp=ygUrbGVvIHN0cmF1cyBhbmQgdGhlIHRocmVlIHdhdmVzIG9mIG1vZGVybml0eQ%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWps2AkdcfE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=1&t=963s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHwZl6kC5zs&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=2&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOW-JKh-AcA&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4UCIEshC_uZ36LEpT_rdLV0&index=1&t=218s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTHxTspMv9Y&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4UCIEshC_uZ36LEpT_rdLV0&index=2&t=1072s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1K2LSWGP8k&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4UCIEshC_uZ36LEpT_rdLV0&index=4&t=575s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2tLot9bAU&t=11s