As shared meaning dissolves and reason loses its sway, many of us are left with a vague emptiness—alone with our doubts, ...

Even so, the nihilist is not to be confused with the narcissist or fabulist, the hired gun or hanger-on. On the contrary, a nihilist offers a kind of constancy and hope. “A nihilist is a man who ...

Nihilism (literally, nothing-ism) was a term coined by novelist Ivan Turgenev to desc… A century and a half ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche launched his crusade against the threat of ...

In the Western tradition it hard to find a pure nihilist. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, the existentialists, and the postmodernists have expressed various nihilistic views, but all of them appear to ...

Nietzsche's outlook looks grim, but Brittney Hartley believes that not all is lost. ... Nihilism is the rejection of religious and moral principles in the belief that life is utterly meaningless.

For Watson, an accomplished intellectual historian, Nietzsche diagnosed the “nihilist predicament” in which the high-bourgeois civilization that preceded the Great War unwittingly found itself.

NIETZSCHE AND THE BURBS By Lars Iyer. ... who scrawls “NIHILISM” on the cover of his notebook and elevates the group’s ennui into something more profound. They call him Nietzsche, ...

In the Western tradition it hard to find a pure nihilist. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, the existentialists, and the postmodernists have expressed various nihilistic views, but all of them appear to ...