Nihilism and Philosophy
Subtitle: Nothingness, Truth and World
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Apr 19, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350035188
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)