Treatise on Nihilism

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Publisher : Blacksatin Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780978115159
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis Treatise on Nihilism by : Dr Michel Luc Bellemare Ph D

Download or read book Treatise on Nihilism written by Dr Michel Luc Bellemare Ph D and published by Blacksatin Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical relativism, i.e., nihilism, is increasingly the state of knowledge and being, today, as it is increasingly revealed, discovered and understood that logical reason is underpinned with nothing more than anarchy, relativity and an overwhelming sense of nebulous vacuity. The only feature holding meaning and language together in the face of complete degeneration and decrepit fuzzy uncertainty is, artificially, constructed logical order and sense. That is, logical order and sense manufactured by the apparatus of logical reason, itself, so that it can maximize its mastery, its power, and its comprehension over the phenomenal-world, both individually and collectively, both mental and physical etc. Before all paradigms, languages and/or concepts etc., rests the basic datum-bit of logical order and sense, the last, tiny, rhizome limb left on the knowledge tree, after which, everything falls apart and wastes away in total incomprehensibility, opacity and indeterminate nullity. Yet, on this delicate twig, dangling in a frozen calculating wind, lies the last ripe berry, now ready to spread its gen should any entity taste its honeyed facticity, pure relativism. The fact is logical reason is an apparatus hardwired to pursue the mastery and comprehension of phenomena, ad nauseam, to endlessly fashion and manufacture logical order and sense, ad nauseam, regardless, if it wants to or not. It does this so it can bewitch itself into believing faithfully in its own mastery, power, and comprehension as a predetermined, logical unfolding of knowledge and being towards a finite, all-encompassing totality. Consequently, this treatise is an exegesis on the synthetic arbitrary nature of logical order and sense, that is, spectral metaphysical nothingness, so as to exorcise the reader of any basic concepts, precepts, and haunting spooks, concerning any firm unyielding belief in anything concrete, eternal, and/or universal etc.

The Essence of Nihilism

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786128
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis The Essence of Nihilism by : Emanuele Severino

Download or read book The Essence of Nihilism written by Emanuele Severino and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of Nihilism published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and to firmly establish Severino's preeminent position within the constellation of contemporary philosophy. In this groundbreaking book, Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of 'the greatest folly', that is, of the belief that 'things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing'. According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has produced a belief in the radical 'nothingness' of things. This, in turn has justified the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction. To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all 'return to Parmenides'. Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes the 'path of night' of nihilism, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent.

Medical Nihilism

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198747047
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Medical Nihilism by : Jacob Stegenga

Download or read book Medical Nihilism written by Jacob Stegenga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This book argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low" --

Philosophy in a Meaningless Life

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474247687
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy in a Meaningless Life by : James Tartaglia

Download or read book Philosophy in a Meaningless Life written by James Tartaglia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Philosophy in a Meaningless Life provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence. Rejecting all of this, Tartaglia embraces nihilism ('we are here with nothing to do'), and uses transcendence both to provide a new solution to the problem of consciousness, and to explain away perplexities about time and universals. He concludes that with more self-awareness, philosophy can attain higher status within a culture increasingly in need of it.

Nihilism

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ISBN 13 : 9780994595836
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Nihilism by : Brett Stevens

Download or read book Nihilism written by Brett Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of philosophy in the continental tradition, Nihilism examines the human relationship with philosophical doubt through a series of essays designed to stimulate the ancient knowledge within us of what is right and what is real.

Shows about Nothing

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ISBN 13 : 9781602583795
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis Shows about Nothing by : Thomas S. Hibbs

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Nihil Unbound

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590829
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Nihil Unbound by : R. Brassier

Download or read book Nihil Unbound written by R. Brassier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.

A Defence of Nihilism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000297381
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis A Defence of Nihilism by : James Tartaglia

Download or read book A Defence of Nihilism written by James Tartaglia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Against Nihilism

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Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1551646781
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Against Nihilism by : Stepenberg Maia Stepenberg

Download or read book Against Nihilism written by Stepenberg Maia Stepenberg and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Thomas Mann as "e;brothers in spirit, but tragically grotesque companions in misfortune,"e; Nietzsche and Dostoevsky remain towering figures in the intellectual development of European modernity. Maia Johnson-Stepenberg's accessible new introduction to these philosophers compares their writings on key topics such as criminality, Christianity, and the figure of the "e;outsider"e; to reveal the urgency and contemporary resonance of their shared struggle against nihilism. Against Nihilism also considers nihilism in the context of current political and social struggles, placing Nietzsche and Dostoevsky's contributions at the heart of important contemporary debates regarding community, identity, and meaning. Inspired by class discussions with her students and aimed at first-team readers of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Against Nihilism provides an accessible, unique comparative study of these two key thinkers.

Nihilism Now!

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597769
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Nihilism Now! by : K. Ansell-Pearson

Download or read book Nihilism Now! written by K. Ansell-Pearson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion...as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.

In the Dust of This Planet

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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780990103
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Dust of This Planet by : Eugene Thacker

Download or read book In the Dust of This Planet written by Eugene Thacker and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. The cover of In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z's back promoting Run. The book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW8OK4_1gQ

Genealogy of Nihilism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474008
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Genealogy of Nihilism by : Conor Cunningham

Download or read book Genealogy of Nihilism written by Conor Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501283
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory by : Espen Hammer

Download or read book Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory written by Espen Hammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.

The Specter of the Absurd

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143840008X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis The Specter of the Absurd by : Donald A. Crosby

Download or read book The Specter of the Absurd written by Donald A. Crosby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is our century's most comprehensive and wise treatment of nihilism in all of its guises, comparing favorably with Rosen, Cavell, and indeed with Spengler. Crosby argues that our culture is genuinely haunted by nihilism expressing itself in the fideism of fundamentalism as well as in the debilitating alienation from all orientation. This results from a one-sided development of Western culture. Unlike most writers on this topic, Crosby acknowledges many sources colluding to frame the culture of nihilism, including "the death of God," the objectification of nature, the meaninglessness of suffering in a mechanical universe, the ephemerality of time in a world where value does not accumulate, the arbitrariness of historicized reason, the reduction of value to will, and the alienation of the Cartesian ego. These sources are reviewed in the first two parts of the book with the result that the phenomenon of nihilism becomes understandable. In its third and fourth parts, Crosby provides a critical analysis of the religious and philosophical forces leading to nihilism by discussing authors from the early modern period through Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Russell, and Derrida. He shows that these forces are skewed and impoverished and should not be allowed to determine our situation. The comprehensive attention to detail and the multi-perspectival interpretation demonstrates as well as asserts the richness of the culture that puts nihilism in its place. Part Five, finally, rephrases the criticism of the sources of nihilism in positive ways. Part Four in particular is a tour de force of philosophical argument. Its richness of nuance, plurality of views examined, and adroitness of critical interpretation provide cumulatively a powerful, non-nihilistic reading of the philosophic tradition. The force of the argument derives from its comprehensive, cumulative character. Crosby distinguishes and relates five areas of nihilism: political, moral, epistemological, cosmic, and existential. Throughout the book, he illustrates and examines these as they are expressed in literature and art, in daily life and practical affairs, and in philosophy. The book is richly erudite in its marshalling of consciousness from so many domains.

Laughing at Nothing

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486281
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Laughing at Nothing by : John Marmysz

Download or read book Laughing at Nothing written by John Marmysz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputing the common misconception that nihilism is wholly negative and necessarily damaging to the human spirit, John Marmysz offers a clear and complete definition to argue that it is compatible, and indeed preferably responded to, with an attitude of good humor. He carefully scrutinizes the phenomenon of nihilism as it appears in the works, lives, and actions of key figures in the history of philosophy, literature, politics, and theology, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, and Mishima. While suggesting that there ultimately is no solution to the problem of nihilism, Marmysz proposes a way of utilizing the anxiety and despair that is associated with the problem as a spur toward liveliness, activity, and the celebration of life.

The Nihilist Notebook

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ISBN 13 : 9781791881832
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nihilist Notebook by : Tiger Hero

Download or read book The Nihilist Notebook written by Tiger Hero and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for saying, "Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me."That quote is the quintessential, ironic, nihilistic statement. To a nihilist, life presents little to no value, and yet they provide not value or context by which to judge it; at least that's how we interpret it. Merriam-Webster defines nihilism as, "A viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless."Now we at Tiger Hero Media don't subscribe to the nihilist's philosophy, but we do find humor in it. That is why we created The Nihilist Notebook, chock full of almost no value. Each and every page is filled with near emptiness, but allows for someone to expand on their own nihilistic values, if they ever had the impulse to add to it...which they probably wouldn't. Maybe you have a friend who resembles this idea, and you're looking for a gift that fits his philosophy. Or perhaps you want to anonymously drop it on the desk of that cantankerous ethics professor you had last semester; the one that gave you a substandard grade because you cared too much. Even better, maybe you want to fill every single page with thoughts, doodles, sketches, or ephemera, and then show that off in a nihilist sub-reddit, just to make them upset... if they even cared at all.All kidding aside, we made this notebook for fun, and we hope you have fun with it too. Get your hands on it here on Amazon only-you won't find this on the shelves of Spencer's Gifts (unless they steal our idea, but whatever).THE DETAILS- 6x9" 110-Page Notebook- Bright white, acid-free paper - Matte-lustre cover, because nothing shines in a nihilists world- Perfect for note taking, journaling, sketching or drawing- Can also be used as a scrapbook, slam book, for poetry, music, or even daily meditations about nothingTIGER HERO MEDIA is an independent publisher of unique books, magazines, journals and other print related projects. If you are interested in more of our items, find us by searching Tiger Hero on Amazon.This work (c) 2019 Tiger Hero Media, all rights reserved.

The Sunny Nihilist

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ISBN 13 : 9781788167031
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Sunny Nihilist written by Wendy Syfret and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: