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Petit manuel de non-philosophie à l'usage des philosophes et des non-philosophes, la Lettre à Fichte constitue un document phare pour la genèse du nihilisme européen. Ecrite en 1799 dans un contexte polémique, au plus fort de la Querelle dite de l'athéisme, elle est un ouvrage de guerre contre toute la philosophie occidentale, accusée d'être tendanciellement orientée vers le nihilisme. Selon Jacobi, les philosophes ont privé le monde de son épaisseur. Mystificateurs de génie, ils ont, par abstraction et réflexion, vidé la vie de sa vie, et nous présentent en triomphant une dépouille inerte qui n'est que le reflet creux de leur ego surdimensionné. La Lettre sur le nihilisme est accompagnée de textes de Jacobi, de Fichte et de Reinhold, ainsi que d'un dossier comprenant un choix représentatif de documents relatifs à cette Lettre.
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A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation. Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine ejected him from his position as Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of Nihilism, published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and it established Severino’s preeminent position within the the constellation of contemporary philosophy. In this groundbreaking and classic book—now for the first time available in English—Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of “the greatest folly,” that is, of the belief that “things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing.” According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has resulted in a conviction that there is a radical “nothingness” to existence. In turn, this justifies the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction. To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all “return to Parmenides.” Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes nihilism’s “path of night”, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent thing.
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Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking experiences of the two World Wars and the Holocaust. In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern nihilism was the rapid development of Enlightenment science, which established a secular worldview. This radically diminished the importance of human beings so that, in the vastness of space and time, individuals now seemed completely insignificant within the universe. The author's panoramic exploration of how nihilism developed - not only in philosophy, but also in religion, poetry and literature - shows what an urgent topic it was for thinkers of all kinds, and how it has continued powerfully to shape intellectual debates ever since.
Nihilism (Philosophy) --- History --- Philosophy
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Religion --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Atheism
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Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Salvation --- Literature