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Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers)
Ivan Turgenev
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
The previous generation is always stupid!
+ One of the most meaningful novels ever written
+ Family Values
+ A good one
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Nihilism Before Nietzsche (Phoenix Poets)
Michael Allen Gillespie
University Of Chicago Press, 1996
Whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?
+ God becomes Man, Man becomes Insane
+ Dark Night of the Noumenal I
+ Thorough and Entertaining
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The Dark Side: Thoughts on the Futility of Life from the Ancient Greeks to the Present
Carol Publishing Corporation, 1994
The ultimate nihilistic reference. Excellent!
+ The Dark Side is a creative and interesting book
If you are a nihilist or are just interested (or curious -I know I was) in nihilism then you should definately check out this book. I got mine at the library and ended up buying multiple copies. It helps me put forth evidence in essays and other things I write of how nihilism has been present ...
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The Thirst of Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Nick Land
Routledge, 1990
This piece of hole for madmen
+ Nick Land and Victor Vitanza
+ A PIT FULL OF BAT DUNG
I cannot compare reading this book to any other book I have read. It is not a poem. It is not a fiction. Philosophy? No, obviously not. Nick Land curses philosophy and everything about it but its philosophical chapters are sharp, intelligent, rich and mysteriously gloomy. If demons wished to write ...
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The Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism
James C. Edwards
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997
Serious inquiry into meaning; accessible
+ A work that makes you slap your head and yell "YES!"
+ My obdurate hankering for the ineffable is gone !
+ Exquisite
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Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing & the Difference of Theology (Radical Orthodoxy Series)
Cono Cunningham
Routledge, 2002
Getting out of our respective ghettoes
+ Difficult, demanding -and truly brilliant!
A very important book in the Radical Orthdoxy series, and probably my favourite of those I've read so far. Conor Cunningham does a wonderful job not only in tracing back through the history of modern nihilism, but also of making sense of all the philosophical writings of the many key figures he ...
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The Banalization of Nihilism: Twentieth-Century Responses to Meaninglessness
Karen Leslie Carr
State University of New York Press, 1992
A lucid and readable analysis of a beguiling subject.
This is not only the best work that I have ever seen on the difficult subject of nihilism, but it is possibly the most well-written work of non-fiction that I have ever read. Carr begins by describing how nihilism became conceptualized and articulated with the onset of modernity. She then ...
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Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vintage, 1989
What was on Zarathustra's mind on those mountains?
+ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "...PUTTING HIS FINGER ON BAD ARTS OF INTERPRETATION" (start here with Nietzsche)
+ Way Beyond Good & Evil
Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and hinted at in the Gay Science. It helps to be familiar with TSZ, or at least the Gay Science coming into reading this text, given the subtlety of the allusions to his former writings and concepts, and the ...
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Nihilism
Stanley Rosen
Yale University Press, 1982
Good !
+ Applied Kojeve
+ Rosen out of his mind
Stanley Rosen says nihilism is the position that obtains when all speech becomes like silence- once all values become justifiable they also become meaningless. Wittgenstein and Heidegger represent the two movements in modern philosophy that Rosen accuses of rejecting the authority of words. The ...
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Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (Studies in fascism)
Hermann Rauschning
Ams Pr Inc, 1939
Profound book for its time.
Rauschning's book shed light for his contemporaries on the real meaning of National Socialism. The book was released several months prior to WWII. Rauschning was a German and former prominent Nazi but went into exile to Paris when he discovered the true meaning of National Socialism. ...
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Very Little .... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)
S. Critchley
Routledge, 1997
One of the most crucial philosophical pieces of the 20th cen
+ Life as the Meaning of Life
Critchley portrays an honest and straight-foreward picture of man's nihilistic state in a harsh and uncertain reality. The book begins with an intro to give the reader some background and justification for our meaningless existence in a world absent of God. He then moves on to present the reader ...
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The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ...
Gianni Vattimo
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991
Vattimo's hard to accept tesis about a weak thinking.
This book is important to understand postmodernism. However, i don't image american readers accepting Vattimo's tesis about weak subjet right to have a place in world. Why modern civilization has impossed to us the obligation of being strong and the first in every action as the only way to be ...
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Waiting For Godot In Sarajevo: Theological Reflections On Nihilsim, Tragedy, And Apocalypse (Radical ...
David Toole
Basic Books, 1998
A must-read book on Christianity and the 20th Century.
+ Toole's writing is both clear and illuminating.
+ A challenges to believe in a life that has meaning &dignnity
David Toole's book is an outstanding contribution to a world struggling to reconcile the fundamental tenets of Christianity with a modernized (some would say post-modernized) materialist, and secular world. Indeed, for all our church going etc., we are a society that will not think twice about ...
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Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld
Thomas S. Hibbs
Spence Publishing Company, 2000
Much Ado About "Nothing"
+ Q: What's on TV tonight? A: Nothing.
+ Pretty good
+ An eye-opening expose of our Nihilistic culture
+ A philosophical perspective on movies & TV
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The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism
Roger Scruton
Palgrave Macmillan, 1995
mind opening
this book is a collection of essays, but it's a terrific, accessible introduction to classical architecture. it's also an exciting polemic. by the time scruton's done, you're likely to have far less patience for the cant of modern (and post- and neo- and deconstructionist) architecture than you ...
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