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 (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- 2.2 The Yellow Birds
- 2.3 Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
- 2.4 Waves '98
- 2.5 Medical Nihilism
- 2.6 Beyond Good and Evil
- 2.7 The Age of Nihilism: An Inquiry into the Death of Western Democracy or, The Consequences of Philosophy
- 2.8 Nothing & Everything: How to stop fearing nihilism and embrace the void
- 2.9 Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
- 2.10 F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
Videos
Nihilism (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
- Gertz, Nolen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 09/10/2019 (Publication Date) - The MIT Press (Publisher)
The Yellow Birds
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette (Actors)
- Alexandre Moors (Director) - David Lowery (Writer) - Mark Canton (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
- Stevens, Brett (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 280 Pages - 08/03/2016 (Publication Date) - Manticore Press (Publisher)
Waves '98
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Ely Dagher (Director) - Ely Dagher (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Medical Nihilism
- Hardcover Book
- Stegenga, Jacob (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 256 Pages - 05/15/2018 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (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)
The Age of Nihilism: An Inquiry into the Death of Western Democracy or, The Consequences of Philosophy
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- McManus, Curtis R. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 187 Pages - 03/13/2018 (Publication Date) - FriesenPress (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)
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Warren, Calvin L. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 232 Pages - 05/10/2018 (Publication Date) - Duke University Press Books (Publisher)
F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
- F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
- Parkin, John C. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 264 Pages - 03/24/2014 (Publication Date) - Hay House Inc. (Publisher)
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