Sam Shepard's States of Shock: Nihilism in Political Drama

Year 1996, Issue: 3, 69 - 74, 01.04.1996

Aslı Tekinay

Abstract

"What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism" Nietzsche 3 . Such was Nietzsche's prophecy in The Will toPower. According to him, nihilism means the highest values devaluating themselves; aim is lacking and "Why?" finds no answer.

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