The self-overcoming of nihilism /
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| Author / Creator: | Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990. |
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| Uniform title: | Nihirizumu. English |
| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1990. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 240 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in modern Japanese philosophy SUNY series in modern Japanese philosophy. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105087 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Notes on Texts
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Nihilism as Existence
- 1. Two Problems
- 2. Nihilism and the Philosophy of History
- 3. European Nihilism
- 2. From Realism to Nihilism: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach
- 1. Hegel's Absolute Idealism and Radical Realism
- 2. Schopenhauer-Will as Real-The Nullity of Existence
- 3. Kierkegaard-Becoming and Existence
- 4. Feuerbach-Critique of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics
- 3. Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Consummate Nihilist
- 1. The Significance of Nihilism in Nietzsche
- 2. Radical Nihilism
- 3. Nietzsche's Interpretation of Christianity
- 4. The Concept of "Sincerity"-"Will to Illusion"
- 4. Nietzsche's Affirmative Nihilism: Amor Fati and Eternal Recurrence
- 1. Value-Interpretation and Perspectivism
- 2. The Problem of Amor Fati
- 3. Love of Fate as "Innermost Nature"-Suffering-Soul
- 4. The Idea of Eternal Recurrence: The "Moment" and Eternity
- 5. Eternal Recurrence and Overcoming the Spirit of Gravity
- 6. Love of Fate and Eternal Recurrence
- 7. The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
- 5. Nihilism and Existence in Nietzsche
- 1. "God is Dead"
- 2. Critique of Religion
- 3. The Stages of Nihilism
- 4. Nihilism as Existence
- 5. The First Stage of Existence
- 6. The Second Stage of Existence
- 7. Nihilism as Scientific Conscience
- 8. Science and History as Existence
- 9. "Living Dangerously" and "Experimentation"
- 10. The Third Stage-Existence as Body
- 11. The Dialectical Development of Nihilism
- 6. Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner
- 1. Stirner's Context
- 2. The Meaning of Egoism
- 3. Realist, Idealist, Egoist-"Creative Nothing"
- 4. From Paganism to Christianity
- 5. From Christianity to Liberalism
- 6. From Liberalism to Egoism
- 7. Ownness and Property-All and Nothing
- 8. The State and the Individual
- 7. Nihilism in Russia
- 1. Russian Nihilism
- 2. Bazarov's Nihilism-"Fathers and Sons"
- 3. Nihilism as Contemplation-"Notes from Underground"
- 8. Nihilism as Philosophy: Martin Heidegger
- 1. Existentialism as a Discipline
- 2. The "Ontological Difference"
- 3. Transcendence and Being-in-the-World
- 4. Being-toward-Death and Anxiety
- 5. Finitude-Metaphysics-Existence-Freedom
- 9. The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan
- 1. The Crisis in Europe and Nihilism
- 2. The Crisis Compounded
- 3. The Significance of European Nihilism for Us
- 4. Buddhism and Nihilism
- Appendix. The Problem of Atheism
- 1. Marxist Humanism
- 2. Sartrean Existentialism
- 3. Atheism in the World of Today
- Notes
- Index