Author: Karen L. Carr
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791498522
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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After a historical and conceptual overview of the changing face of nihilism in the last century, Carr examines Nietzsche’s diagnosis of nihilism as modernity’s major crisis. She then compares the responses to nihilism given by the early Karl Barth and by Richard Rorty. To some, nihilism is losing its crisis connotations and becoming simply an unobjectionable characteristic of human life. Carr argues that this transformation ultimately absolutizes community preference and reflects an increasing inability to criticize and change the existing structures of thought. The author contends that the uncritical acceptance of nihilism, which characterizes much of postmodernism, ironically culminates in its complete opposite—dogmatism.

Author: Karen Leslie Carr
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Size: 47.96 MB
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Category : Meaninglessness (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Edward Craig
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ISBN: 9780415187121
Size: 54.28 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 895
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Review: "Depth and breadth of coverage, clarity of presentation, impressive bibliographies, excellent use of cross references, and an extensive index combine to make this an impressive reference work. The contributors have addressed both current and past scholarship on world philosophy and religion and have produced a worthy successor to Macmillan's 1967 Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It will be read and understood by the educated public as well as scholars and will be a fine addition to academic and large public library reference collections."--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Author: M. Brett Callaway
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532653840
Size: 61.38 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Not so long ago it was taken for granted that God exists. Today, there is a blindness to him even though he makes his presence known to all. The book begins by showing how better to recognize his presence and understand how he reveals himself to us. The next three chapters discuss how we move from an awareness of his presence to beginning to know him, and through a knowledge of him, begin to know what his purpose is for us and how our lives are shaped by that knowledge. Having seen how he reveals himself to us and how we know the world and see the world through different eyes, we then look at how to apply our new view in the face of a society that remains blind to this knowledge. Chapters 5-7 explore truth first from the standpoint of its existence, then in how to recognize its counterfeits, and finally to understand the consequences of its loss. Chapters 8-10 look at how and why being able to see God's hand in all aspects of life, and to center life on him by faith in his son Jesus Christ, completely changes life for the better. Non-Christians often hear this claim made by evangelists. If they ask why, too often the answer is in "Christian-speak" that is foreign to them. The intent is to bridge from the place where they are and explain how Christians have found peace in times of suffering, even joy in the most horrific circumstances, enabling them to give thanks in all things. In a sense, the book finishes where it started, by looking at who we truly are, what kind of world this is, and how God has made all into his glorious plan.

Author: Taras Volodymyrovych Li︠u︡tyĭ
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Size: 65.75 MB
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Category : Nihilism (Philosophy)
Languages : uk
Pages : 295
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Author: Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.)
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Size: 50.53 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Category : Jewish learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Shane Weller
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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Size: 21.37 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Wyndham Lewis, Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Focusing in particular on the ways in which each of these thinkers produces a theory of the literary as the privileged form of resistance to nihilism, Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche.

Author: Donald A. Crosby
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887067198
Size: 17.86 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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This book is our century's most comprehensive and wise treatment of nihilism in all of its guises, comparing favorably with Rosen, Cavell, and indeed with Spengler. Crosby argues that our culture is genuinely haunted by nihilism expressing itself in the fideism of fundamentalism as well as in the debilitating alienation from all orientation. This results from a one-sided development of Western culture. The force of the argument derives from its comprehensive, cumulative character. Crosby distinguishes and relates five areas of nihilism: political, moral, epistemological, cosmic, and existential. Throughout the book, he illustrates and examines these as they are expressed in literature and art, in daily life and practical affairs, and in philosophy. The book is richly erudite in its marshalling of consciousness from so many domains.

Author: Charles Irving Glicksberg
Publisher: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Begins directly with the characteristics of nihilistic thought and the contrast between nihilism and humanism, and then proceeds to give an account of the religious battles against this negative and deathfearing philosophy. Also discusses Kafka, Camus, Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett and others.

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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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Author: Martin Halliwell
Publisher: Routledge
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture.