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Friedrich Nietzsche and European Nihilism (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Friedrich Nietzsche and European Nihilism (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This book is a thorough study of Nietzsche's thoughts on nihilism,
the history of the concept, the different ways in which he tries to
explain his ideas on nihilism, the way these ideas were received in
the 20th century, and, ultimately, what these ideas should mean to
us. It begins with an exploration of how we can understand the
strange situation that Nietzsche, about 130 years ago, predicted
that nihilism would break through one or two centuries from then,
and why, despite the philosopher describing it as the greatest
catastrophe that could befall humankind, we hardly seem to be aware
of it, let alone be frightened by it.The book shows that most of us
are still living within the old frameworks of faith, and,
therefore, can hardly imagine what it would mean if the idea of God
(as the summit and summary of all our epistemic, moral, and
esthetic beliefs) would become unbelievable. The comfortable
situation in which we live allows us to conceive of such a
possibility in a rather harmless way: while distancing ourselves
from explicit religiosity, we still maintain the old framework in
our scientific and humanistic ideals. This book highlights that
contemporary science and humanism are not alternatives to, but
rather variations of the old metaphysical and Christian faith. The
inconceivability of real nihilism is elaborated by showing that
people either do not take it seriously enough to feel its threat,
or - when it is considered properly - suffer from the threat, and
by this very suffering prove to be attached to the old nihilistic
structures.Because of this paradoxical situation, this text
suggests that the literary imagination might bring us closer to the
experience of nihilism than philosophy ever could. This is further
elaborated with the help of a novel by Juli Zeh and a play by
Samuel Beckett. In the final chapter of the book, Nietzsche's life
and philosophy are themselves interpreted as a kind of literary
metaphorical presentation of the answer to the question of how to
live in an age of nihilism.
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