In Nietzsche, ‘European nihilism’ has at its core valuelessness, meaninglessness and senselessness. This article argues that Nietzsche is not replacing God with the nothing, but rather that he regards ‘European nihilism’ as an ‘in-between state’ that is necessary for getting beyond Christian...
since it was sometimes necessary to give an overview of kant's and schopenhauer's ideas in order to have greater insight into the meaning of the criticism aimed at these earlier philosophical systems. Generaly speaking, we have chosen to study nietzsche's thought by focusing mainly on ...
Nihilism : The Affirmation of Life Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism Martin Heidegger's major work, Being and Time, is usually considered the culminating work in a tradition called existential philosophy. The first person to call himself an existential thinker was Sren Kierkegaard, and his influence ...
This article analyzes the views of Nietzsche's "will to power", "eternal return of the sameself", and "super- man". It claims that this thought of Nietzshe discloses a view on the value of life or becoming, and is a great try to bid farewell to or overcome "European Nihilism". ...
It is with Nietzsche that what we call Western nihilism comes into the spotlight of history. With this, we gain consciousness of a process that has been secretly working in the substructure of European history. Following Nietzsche, Heidegger describes nihilism as a force unleashed as ...
He also does not share Fukuyama's fear of the last men: "Kojeve, Strauss, Adorno, Nietzsche, and Heidegger are linked to Lenin and Mao by an urge to extirpate: either to abolish the bourgeoisie as a class or, at least, to root out bourgeois culture . . . " (213). This, too, ...
Nietzsche and the NihilismFriedrich NietzscheNihilismAlbert CamusCamus, AlbertMonth
Nihilism, Nietzsche and the Doppelganger Problem Was Nietzsche a nihilist? Yes, because, like J. L. Mackie, he was an error-theoristabout morality, including the elitist morality to which he himself subscribed. But he was variously a diagnostician, an opponentand a survivor of certain other ...
The Newest Nietzsche Richard Schacht: Nietzsche. (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. xxii + 546. $.38.95.) Ofelia Schutte: Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche Without Masks. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 233. $22.00.) ...
Heidegger, MartinWittgenstein, LudwigNietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmLanguage and languagesThe authority of language : Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the threat of philosophical nihilism by James C. Edwards University of South Florida Press, c1990 : alk. paper...