... to be true of every human being. It cites that just a few people made a glimpse of nihilism and the chapter also states that nihilism represents a great event that made a mark in religion. Also the chapter explains that there is sacredness between Christian art and Christian vocabulary because religious art...

...The first section of the chapter shall examine young Yannaras's criticism of the West under the influence of Dostoevsky. The second section will address his later criticism of the West following in Heidegger's footsteps and his belief that it was possible to move beyond Western nihilism through...

... that Thoreau's project can be read as a sustained response to the problem of nihilism, or the possibility that we might find our lives drained of significance; in this respect, it invites comparison with the work of figures such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Drawing from the work of phenomenologists, especially...

...],” and concludes with an analysis of what Benjamin means by “nihilism”: the state in which not only is there no revelation, but it is not even expected any longer. Adorno Gretel Adorno Theodor Benjamin Walter Messiah messianic redemption Scholem Gershom Spinoza Baruch bare life Bergson Henri James...

... our present situation is one of nihilism and how one should respond to it. Marion argues that God is not in retreat and Catholicism not in crisis. He ends with a discussion of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism and a brief evaluation of the recent papacies. Catholicism intellectual...

... of Sinope Hardt Michael Jünger Ernst Kojève Alexandre Obama Barack H Lamprocles Pausanias Plutarch Simmias Asimov Cacciari Carrera European Inheritance geo-politics nihilism political theory Plutarch We must ask ourselves whether history is trying to create a synthesis between two...

... Deleuze Gilles Blanchot Maurice Genet Jean Kant Immanuel Levinas Emmanuel Scott Charles Dante Alighieri Bennington Geoffrey Derrida deconstruction nihilism David Wood Edith Wyschogrod Prayers and Tears God prayer Caputo phenomenology I work my way through things by writing. So, whenever I...

... violence nihilism Rodríguez Matos Jaime anomie Laclau Ernesto Left Heideggerianism Lenin Vladimir Marchart Oliver postfoundational thinking Schmitt Carl deconstruction infrapolitics Álvarez Solís Ángel Octavio Villalobos Ruminott Sergio Cerrato Maddalena passage Benjamin Walter romanticism...

... formless Left-Heideggerianism Oliver Marchart neo-communism neo-republicanism nihilism political theology post-foundationalism Rafael Rojas Cintio Vitier The theological underpinnings of the Cuban Revolution are often confronted as if it were a nationally circumscribed problematic, even as its...

...The conclusion reviews the historical debate about the meaning of autonomy to enter the contemporary one. Many contemporary Kantians seek to counter the charge of relativism or nihilism by maintaining that Kant provides a true account of morality for imperfectly rational being such as ourselves...

... suggests that in spite of fashionable relativisms, it is important to preserve the Good's absoluteness against the threat of nihilism, radical historism, and sophistry. Levinas Emanuel affectivity and satisfaction Llewelyn John Virgin Mary Zoodochus Pege Incarnation Visker Rudi Aristotle Derrida...

...The chapter further develops the present situation as a time of nihilism and ideology. We are in a crisis of reason. Instead of demonizing modernity or ignoring it, we must be more reasonable, namely by unfolding the logic of Revelation. Marion considers and then refutes a communicational model...

...Nancy names the alternatives to nihilism as desire, joy, and jouissance. He offers a sort of genealogy of joy from Plato to Christianity to Protestantism to Modern Philosophy to Freud and contemporary life. He distinguishes joy from need and relates it to the greeting of a world. Christianity...

...This book explores an aesthetics of existence inspired by Gilles Deleuze and his 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus, co-authored with Félix Guattari. “Existentialism” has come to refer to a certain voluntaristic way of responding to the threat of nihilism. The book equates the threat...

... that there is a positive conception of pointlessness that evades the paradox of trudging boots. Friedrich Nietzsche characterizes the negative conception of pointlessness that delivers us to nihilism and at the same time argues that what is needed is a “more rigorous critique” of the concept of purpose. The problem now...

...This chapter examines some minor works surrounding Psychology, on the grounds that in the buildup (and aftermath) to something momentous, one can often detect significant motives. It focuses, in particular, on a little-read piece about nihilism that Dewey wrote...

... Demonbynes Jean Mayer Julius Robert von affirmation Jean Beaufret chaos eternal return Friedrich Nietzsche nihilism order the superhuman Jacob Taubes In July 1964, the eminent French historian of philosophy, Martial Gueroult, opened a five-day conference on Friedrich Nietzsche at the Royaumont...

...This chapter focuses on contemporary nihilism as technology that is considered the epoch of the consummation of the nihilism of many epochs. It describes Martin Heidegger's well-known texts about contemporary nihilism that is pathetically exposed to its precursors, trajectory, and limit...

... to a peculiar and far-more problematic form of public indifference, an indifference toward philosophy (or in short: nihilism). Aristotle Aristotelian Aristotelianism contradiction Schmid Carl Christian Erhard idealism idealist nature skepticism skeptic dogmatism dogmatic necessity choice Lenin Vladimir...

... destituent potential fragmentation Berlant Lauren cruel optimism Campt Tina M apophasis apophatic folding Rubenstein Mary Jane seed sowing activism Afropessimism Black feminism Capitalism environmental justice hope negativity nihilism pessimism undecidability … if time is not empty...