Term invented or popularized by Russian novelist Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) in his novel Fathers and Sons (1861) for the rejection of all traditional values.
Literally meaning ‘nothingism’, the term can be applied to views saying that all knowledge is impossible, that all alleged metaphysical truths or values are illusory, or that ethical values cannot be given any foundation and so are arbitrary.
‘Nihilism’ has been applied particularly to a movement in Czarist Russia which held that any means were permissible in overthrowing the existing order (the value of overthrowing it being tacitly taken for granted), and to later offshoots and imitations of that movement elsewhere.
The term is in fact seldom used in modern English-speaking philosophy.
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- 2.2 Mall
- 2.3 Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- 2.4 Nihilism And Technology
- 2.5 Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void
- 2.6 Beyond Good and Evil
- 2.7 Optimistic Nihilism: A Psychologist's Personal Story & (Biased) Professional Appraisal of Shedding Religion
- 2.8 Medical Nihilism
- 2.9 Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
- 2.10 Nihilism Soap - 1 Mini Bar of Soap - Made in The USA
Videos
Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- Gertz, Nolen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 09/10/2019 (Publication Date) - MIT Press (Publisher)
Mall
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- James Frecheville, Cameron Monaghan (Actors)
- Joseph Hahn (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Rose, Seraphim (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 12/01/2001 (Publication Date) - St Herman Pr (Publisher)
Nihilism And Technology
- Gertz, Nolen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 242 Pages - 07/15/2018 (Publication Date) - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Publisher)
Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void
- Tine, Val N. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 175 Pages - 02/14/2017 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
Beyond Good and Evil
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 116 Pages - 11/06/2018 (Publication Date) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Publisher)
Optimistic Nihilism: A Psychologist's Personal Story & (Biased) Professional Appraisal of Shedding Religion
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Landers, David (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 322 Pages - 06/06/2016 (Publication Date) - IM Print Publishing (Publisher)
Medical Nihilism
- Hardcover Book
- Stegenga, Jacob (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 256 Pages - 03/15/2018 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
- Stevens, Brett (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 280 Pages - 08/03/2016 (Publication Date) - Manticore Press (Publisher)
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