The Movement Of Nihilism

Author : Laurence Paul Hemming,Kostas Amiridis,Bogdan Costea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826438690

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When Nietzsche announced 'the advent of nihilism' in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching 'the history of the next two centuries': 'For some time now', he wrote, 'our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.' Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche's warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it; attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. The book also provides and fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Author : Laurence Paul Hemming,Bogdan Costea,Kostas Amiridis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1472547659

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The Movement of Nihilism by Laurence Paul Hemming,Bogdan Costea,Kostas Amiridis Pdf

An original collection of essays that aims to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of his understanding of nihilism.

Author : Laurence Paul Hemming,Kostas Amiridis,Bogdan Costea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441101334

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The Movement of Nihilism by Laurence Paul Hemming,Kostas Amiridis,Bogdan Costea Pdf

When Nietzsche announced 'the advent of nihilism' in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching 'the history of the next two centuries': 'For some time now', he wrote, 'our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.' Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche's warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it; attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. The book also provides and fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350035195

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Nihilism and Philosophy by Gideon Baker Pdf

The question of nihilism is always a question of truth. It is a crisis of truth that causes the experience of the nothingness of existence. What elevated truth to this existential position? The answer is: philosophy. The philosophical will to truth opens the door to nihilism, since it both makes identifying truth the utmost aim and yet continually calls it into question. Baker develops the central insight that the crises of truth and of existence, or 'loss of world', that occur within nihilistic thought are inseparable, in a wide-ranging study from antiquity to the present, from ancient Cynics, St Paul, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Agamben, and Badiou. Baker contends that since nihilism is always a question of the relation to the world occasioned by the philosophical will to truth, an answer to nihilism must be able to propose a new understanding of truth.

Author : James Tartaglia,Tracy Llanera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000297386

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A Defence of Nihilism by James Tartaglia,Tracy Llanera Pdf

This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers and religious leaders to indicate a widespread cultural crisis of truth, meaning, or morals. Many religious believers think atheism leads to moral chaos (because it leads to nihilism), and atheists typically insist that we can make life meaningful through our own actions (thereby avoiding nihilism). In this way, both sides conflate the cosmic sense of meaning at stake with a social sense of meaning. This book charts a third course between extremist and alarmist views of nihilism. It casts doubt on the assumption that nihilism is something to fear, or a problem which human culture should overcome by way of seeking, discovering, or making meaning. In this way, the authors believe that a revised understanding of nihilism can help remove a significant barrier of misunderstanding between religious believers and atheists. A Defence of Nihilism will be of interest to scholars and students in philosophy, religion, and other disciplines who are interested in questions surrounding the meaning of life.

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009266741

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A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Stewart Pdf

Nihilism – the belief that life is meaningless – is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking experiences of the two World Wars and the Holocaust. In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern nihilism was the rapid development of Enlightenment science, which established a secular worldview. This radically diminished the importance of human beings so that, in the vastness of space and time, individuals now seemed completely insignificant within the universe. The author's panoramic exploration of how nihilism developed – not only in philosophy, but also in religion, poetry and literature – shows what an urgent topic it was for thinkers of all kinds, and how it has continued powerfully to shape intellectual debates ever since.

Author : Jenny Helin,Tor Hernes,Daniel Hjorth,Robin Holt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191648090

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The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies by Jenny Helin,Tor Hernes,Daniel Hjorth,Robin Holt Pdf

Process approaches to organization studies focus on flow, activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches draw on a range of ideas and philosophies. The Handbook examines 34 philosophers and social theorists, both those commonly linked to process thinking, such as Whitehead, Bergson and James, and those that are not as often addressed from a process perspective such as Dilthey and Tarde. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research. For students and scholars in the field of Organization Studies this book is an entry point into the work of philosophical thinkers and social theorists for whom the world is far from being a solid place.

Author : Bulent Diken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134055821

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Nihilism by Bulent Diken Pdf

This book addresses the genealogy and consequences of nihilism, attempts at 'sociologizing' the concept of nihilism by relating nihilism to capitalism, post-politics and terrorism, and considers the possibilities of overcoming nihilism.

Author : James Biser Whisker,John R. Coe
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1536198021

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Nihilism: by James Biser Whisker,John R. Coe Pdf

Nihilism is a highly negative system of thought with roots in early Greek philosophy. It came into prominence as a major movement with Friedrich Nietzsche's unparalleled assault on Christianity and Christian morality. It became a dominant theme in the dark philosophical system known as existentialism, and thus became an important force in nineteenth century literature and in twentieth century ideologies. It seeks destruction of one or more aspects of society without offering a viable alternative, frequently assuming that the better world will automatically appear after the old world is obliterated. Loathing the building blocks of the present system, nihilism asserts that the better world will be composed of new, but unspecified, components.French philosophy during and after the French Revolution, and virtually all nineteenth century Russian literature, was dominated by nihilism. German Nazism had a nihilistic base which was carefully concealed by racist rantings. Marxism, with so many of its ideas stolen from Russian and French nihilists, proclaimed that faulty economics brought about misery and poverty which would be eradicated by the new but unspecified and undescribed socialist ethic.Revolutionary systems in the twentieth century have delved heavily into the rich trove of nihilist literature to promote, describe, and espouse revolutions which have marked much of that century. Few contemporary nihilists have offered any new insights into reality, choosing only to manipulate the basic concepts heretofore advanced. But the earlier nihilistic ideas have become an all-inspiring training primer for nihilists of future polities. To understand the philosophy of nihilism is to understand the revolutions that have continued to challenge modern societies.

Author : Michael Allen Gillespie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226293486

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Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie Pdf

In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject. Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie focuses on the crucial turning points in the development of nihilism, from Ockham and the nominalist revolution to Descartes, Fichte, the German Romantics, the Russian nihilists and Nietzsche himself. His analysis shows that nihilism is not the result of the death of God, as Nietzsche believed; but the consequence of a new idea of God as a God of will who overturns all eternal standards of truth and justice. To understand nihilism, one has to understand how this notion of God came to inform a new notion of man and nature, one that puts will in place of reason, and freedom in place of necessity and order.

Author : Alfons Chrostowski Mieczysław
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019983303

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Nihilists by Alfons Chrostowski Mieczysław Pdf

Author : Keiji Nishitani
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791404382

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The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Keiji Nishitani Pdf

The first English translation (by Graham Parker, with Setsuko Aihara) of a forty-year-old Japanese classic--Nishitani's treatment of the problem of nihilism, with particular reference to Nietzsche's philosophical ideas, and from a perspective influenced by Buddhist thought. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691100586

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The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia by Richard Stites Pdf

"This book offers a brilliant treatment of many facets of its subject, but it also ends up being, for the reader, one of the finest general histories to be found, of these crucial years in Russian history. The source material is unbelievably detailed, and clearly cited on each page. Not only that, the writing is, at many points, the boldest, clearest I've almost ever found in the Academy. The author's opinions, summaries, insights easily spill out of the historical constructions. The presence of the author's psyche (he never hides behind his quotes) means the material is contoured. The reader gets, not only huge amounts of information, but an authorial presence, as company, that is often daring, bold, insightful, revelatory. And one stylistic point made me especially happy: when Stites uses metaphors to explain history, these are revelatory, and their internal implications are followed through in the prose." -- from www.goodreads.com (Feb. 2, 2011.)

Author : Conor Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134474004

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Genealogy of Nihilism by Conor Cunningham Pdf

This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of nothingness can be witnessed in development, with devastating consequences for the way we live.

Author : Petr Dmitrievich Boborykin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114630993

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Nihilism in Russia by Petr Dmitrievich Boborykin Pdf