Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World
Contributor(s): Baker, Gideon (Author)

View larger image

 ISBN: 1350035181     ISBN-13: 9781350035188
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE: $168.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2018
Qty:

Click for more in this series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
Dewey: 149.8
LCCN: 2018289221
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.16 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2018
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Baker, Gideon: - Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!