The new Nihilism : the existential crisis of our time /
In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values of the Western tradition--rather, it presents a critical opportunity to ask pertinent, timely questions about the meaning of self and the world. Nihilism is a problem that has troubled...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2024]
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21341690 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the American Edition: For a Cartography of the Nihilism of Our Time
- CHAPTER 2 Nihilism, Zero Point
- CHAPTER 3 Glimmers in the Dark
- CHAPTER 4 Intelligence Is Not Autopilot
- CHAPTER 5 That Gap between Knowledge and Affection
- CHAPTER 6 The Infinity Within
- CHAPTER 7 The Vocation of the Flesh
- CHAPTER 8 The Gratitude of Being Born
- CHAPTER 9 Shock in the Face of Mystery
- CHAPTER 10 The Distance between Certainty and Truth
- CHAPTER 11 Ask Me If I'm Happy
- CHAPTER 12 That Drawing Hidden inside the Fog
- CHAPTER 13 On the Desire for Truth
- CHAPTER 14 The Duty that Attracts
- CHAPTER 15 That Emotion that Dwells in Reason: Inside Out
- CHAPTER 16 With What Eyes We Look at the World
- CHAPTER 17 The Loss of the Ego, the Reconquest of the Self
- CHAPTER 18 An Ambiguous Power: The Technical Face of Nihilism
- CHAPTER 19 Rust, Dolores, and the Enigma of Freedom
- CHAPTER 20 Rue in Free Fall
- CHAPTER 21 Conclusion: What Answers Do We Need?
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Terms