A century and a half ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche launched his crusade against the threat of nihilism. Nihilism (literally, nothing-ism) was a term coined by novelist Ivan Turgenev to ...
In a viral clip from Werner Herzog’s Antarctic documentary, a lone penguin marching to its doom has become the feathered embodiment of existential rebellion, absurdist freedom and the search for meani ...
Most historians view the French Revolution as the source of the ideologies that have shaped the modern and postmodern eras. For any ism—from liberalism, conservatism, and communism to nationalism, ...
If we never discovered that Jared Lee Loughner honed his murderous outlook while sitting alone in his bedroom, reading Nietzsche and thinking about nihilism, that would have been real news. Instead of ...
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