Summary An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters. When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing. “ Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the ...(展开全部)

Nihilism is the logic of nothing as something, which claims that Nothing Is. Its unmaking of things, and its forming of formless things, strain the fundamental terms of existence: what it is to be, to know, to be known. But nihilism, the antithesis of God, is also like theology. Where nihilism creates nothingness, condenses it to substance, God also makes nothingness creative. ...(展开全部)

In this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject. Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie focuses on the crucial turning-points in the development of nihilism, from Ock...(展开全部)

In the twentieth century, one often thinks of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. However, in this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject. Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was giv...(展开全部)

Nihilism is the logic of nothing as something, which claims that Nothing Is. Its unmaking of things, and its forming of formless things, strain the fundamental terms of existence: what it is to be, to know, to be known. But nihilism, the antithesis of God, is also like theology. Where nihilism creates nothingness, condenses it to substance, God also makes nothingness creative. ...(展开全部)

斯坦利·罗森（1929-2014），美国波士顿大学荣休教授，著名哲学家。师从施特劳斯和科耶夫，其关注点为哲学的基本问题，以及哲学史上从柏拉图到海德格尔等里程碑式的人物。主要代表作有：《柏拉图的<会饮>》、《虚无主义：哲学反思》、《柏拉图<理想国>新解》、《启蒙的面具：读<查拉图斯特拉如是说>》、《存在之问：颠转海德格尔》、《诗与哲学之争》等。 译者马津，中山大学国际翻译学院讲师。分别于2000年、2005年和2012年获得中山大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业学士、硕士和博士学位，2011年获得法国让∙莫兰里昂第三大学跨文化研究博士学位。研究方向为当代西方批评理论和跨文化研究。

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

This book introduces the writings of one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today to an English-speaking audience. Massimo Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

This book introduces the writings of one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today to an English-speaking audience. Massimo Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society. Essays substantially re...(展开全部)