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Nihilism and Philosophy - Nothingness, Truth and World (Paperback)
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Nihilism and Philosophy - Nothingness, Truth and World (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
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The question of nihilism is always a question of truth. It is a
crisis of truth that causes the experience of the nothingness of
existence. What elevated truth to this existential position? The
answer is: philosophy. The philosophical will to truth opens the
door to nihilism, since it both makes identifying truth the utmost
aim and yet continually calls it into question. Baker develops the
central insight that the crises of truth and of existence, or 'loss
of world', that occur within nihilistic thought are inseparable, in
a wide-ranging study from antiquity to the present, from ancient
Cynics, St Paul, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Agamben, and
Badiou. Baker contends that since nihilism is always a question of
the relation to the world occasioned by the philosophical will to
truth, an answer to nihilism must be able to propose a new
understanding of truth.
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