Nietzschean Self-Overcoming as Self-Annihilation: The Limits of Intelligibility in Bloodborne and Lovecraft
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Published online on May 07, 2026
Abstract
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This essay provides an interpretation ofBloodborne, with the aim of shedding light on an issue that late modernity is facing. The paper argues thatBloodborneexemplifies a tragic allegory of Nietzsche's philosophy within a Lovecraftian universe: the ...
This essay provides an interpretation ofBloodborne, with the aim of shedding light on an issue that late modernity is facing. The paper argues thatBloodborneexemplifies a tragic allegory of Nietzsche's philosophy within a Lovecraftian universe: the ...