Her plans to research nihilism and literature in Paris, where she studied in her twenties, were crushed. Instead of travelling, she decided to immerse herself in Nietzsche at home, amid the chaos of ...

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Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly, that the crisis of capitalism – a word the social-democratic master ...

We who came of age in the 1960s had our own rebellion, facing the draft and a failing war far away. But we thought in ...

Opinion Writer Marie Kneeland A monkey’s meaning for mankind Do you still have stuffed animals? It’s OK, I do, too! When I was a kid, I watched “ Toy Story ” — ...

It often seems like the voices of younger generations are little more than the background patter of a leaking tap to those in power — irksome, inconvenient, but something their minds can quickly tune ...

AFTER a short introduction dealing with Nietzsche's works, a few pages of “definitions” and a sketch of the philosophy formulated by the champion of nihilism, the compiler brings together a series of ...

With the fall of the great empire of Reason, something crucial has departed from our lives--in ways that may not be entirely transparent. This is the fall into meaninglessness-- nihilsim-- that all ...

Nihilism, a philosophical belief that "all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated," has been linked to two recent violent incidents in the United States of America. An ...