Nihilism and Philosophy

Nothingness, Truth and World

Gideon Baker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-13674-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The True World
Chapter 2: Cynic Nihilism
Chapter 3: Paul’s World
Chapter 4: Paul: Nihilist or Overman?
Chapter 5: Nietzsche’s World
Chapter 6: Heidegger’s World
Chapter 7: Parrhesia
Conclusion
References

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-350-13674-3 / 1350136743
ISBN-13	978-1-350-13674-8 / 9781350136748
Zustand	Neuware