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Author:

Baker, Gideon, 1973- author.

Title:

Nihilism and philosophy : nothingness, truth and world / Gideon Baker.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 239 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Nihilism (Philosophy)
Truth.
Nothing (Philosophy)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-227) and index.

Contents:

Philaletheia. Truth and wisdom -- Socratic truth -- Truth and time -- 7. The True World -- The two worlds -- Whence worldlessness? -- The Christian world -- Spinoza's world -- 2. Cynic Nihilism -- Phusis -- Foucault's Cynics -- Apolis -- Negation -- 3. Paul's World -- A genealogy of cosmos -- Paul against empire -- Anti-cosmos -- Badiou's anti-cosmos -- 4. Paul: Nihilist or Overman? -- The reactive Paul -- The active Paul -- Paul the Overman -- The messianic vocation -- 5. Nietzsche's World -- Nietzsche's anti-cosmos -- The true world is a lie -- `The world is perfect' -- Heidegger's Nietzsche -- 6. Heidegger's World -- Being-in-the-world -- Freedom and finitude -- The Nothing -- Nihilism -- 7. Parrhesia -- Parrhesia in the polis -- Philia -- Socrates's last words -- Philaletheia.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

ISBN:

1350035181
9781350035188

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000593118

LCCN:

2018289221

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)