Nihilism and philosophy : nothingness, truth and world /

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Author / Creator:	Baker, Gideon, 1973- author.
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (240 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
Subject:	Nihilism (Philosophy) Nothing (Philosophy) Truth. Nihilism (Philosophy) Nothing (Philosophy) Truth.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13512381

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ISBN:	9781350035195 135003519X 9781350035171 1350035173 1350035181 9781350035188 9781350035188 9781350035225 135003522X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Other form:	Print version : Baker, Gideon, 1973- Nihilism and philosophy. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 1350035181

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