‘A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.’ So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the overarching thematic concept ...

In addition to addresses to the Security Council of the United Nations,the gift can be located at the centre of current discussions of deconstruction, international politics, gender, ethics, philosophy, anthropology and ...

This thesis examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into two parts: theory and literature. Beginning with histories of nihilism and the sublime, the Enlightenment ...