Significações do eu niilista: contrastes entre o século XIX e a contemporaneidade

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on niilism in its differents imaginaries significances in order to draw a social and historical comparison. Which contrasts can be point between niilism, in connection with the meanings of temporality and individuality at 19th century Europe and United States and the contemporary? In the analyses of 19th century, the objects are russian and western european s revolutionaries (the narodniki and the anarchist-terrorists). Works of Ivan Turgueniev and Fiodor Dostoievki besides anarchists s speeches, memoirs and deeds are analysed to search some of the niilism s significances of that time. Within the comparative method, contemporary s significances of niilism are searched by the discution of self-help literature . This kind of literature is helpful to the reflexion of contemporary individual s insecurity and anguish and these connection with the construction of actual meanings of individual and duration.