Fight for Nothing: Fight Club and Nihilism in Capitalist Society
This paper analyses the movie Fight Club (1999) from the philosophical point of view. We reflect on the split personality of the protagonist, showing how the former represents the subject of the modern society, who, unable to find completion in ceaseless consumerism, embarks upon a personal journey...
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This paper analyses the movie Fight Club (1999) from the philosophical point of view. We reflect on the split personality of the protagonist, showing how the former represents the subject of the modern society, who, unable to find completion in ceaseless consumerism, embarks upon a personal journey towards the annihilation of every value of his world. This process of annihilation, which at first takes the form of a closed group of people, evolves into an expansive way of annihilation. The latter symbolizes modern society’s evolved subject’s will to destroy the foundations of capitalist society.
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| spelling | doaj-art-aae7d7a994bb44108e9b7c8f7c7f3a7d2025-08-20T03:09:31ZengAdam Mickiewicz University PressImages1731-450X2720-040X2023-01-01314010.14746/i.2022.40.09Fight for Nothing: Fight Club and Nihilism in Capitalist SocietyGeorgios Karakasis0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4878-6650Jonathan Lavilla de Lera1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0558-8806University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) This paper analyses the movie Fight Club (1999) from the philosophical point of view. We reflect on the split personality of the protagonist, showing how the former represents the subject of the modern society, who, unable to find completion in ceaseless consumerism, embarks upon a personal journey towards the annihilation of every value of his world. This process of annihilation, which at first takes the form of a closed group of people, evolves into an expansive way of annihilation. The latter symbolizes modern society’s evolved subject’s will to destroy the foundations of capitalist society. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/36951Fight clubfilmconsumerismnihilism |
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