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Uribe Miranda, Luis. "Hermenéutica y nihilismo: hacia un pensamiento del conflicto en Gianni Vattimo." Hermenéutica Intercultural, no. 18-19 (March 24, 2014): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07196504.18-19.558.
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Resumen:El artículo presenta los diversos rostros, momentos y fases de la filosofía de Vattimo en su desarrollo teórico. En particular, desarrolla una inter- pretación del pensamiento del filósofo turinés como pensamiento del conflicto sobre la base de un nihilismo pensado desde la perspectiva hermenéutica. Su hipótesis de trabajo gira en torno a la hermenéutica, entendida como la nueva koiné, y el nihilismo nietzscheano vinculado con la lectura de “izquierda” de Heidegger.Palabras clave: hermenéutica – nihilismo – conflicto – vocación nihilista – pensamiento débil.Abstract:The article presents different faces, moments and stages of Vattimo’s philosophy in its theoretical development. Especially, it develops an interpretation of the Turinese philosopher thinking as a thought of the conflict on the basis of a nihilism taken from the hermeneutic perspective. His hypothesis rounds the hermeneutics, which is understood as the newkoine and the Nietzsche’s nihilism linked to Heidegger’s “left” reading.Keywords: Hermeneutics – nihilism – conflict – nihilist vocation – weak thinking
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "NIHILIZMAS, PERFORMATYVUMAS IR KASDIENYBĖS ONTOLOGIJA." Problemos 77 (January 1, 2010): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2010.0.1906.
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Straipsnyje svarstoma performatyvumo problema, iškilusi teoriniuose nihilizmo tyrinėjimuose. Norint atskleisti aštrius, tačiau savaip „paslėptus“ šios problemos kampus, nihilizmo analizė yra kreipiama į vadinamąją kasdienybės „ontologiją“. M. Ferraris kasdienybės „ontologijos“ teorinės nuostatos straipsnyje tampa ne tik parankiu nihilizmo problemos interpretacijos lauku, bet sykiu ir teorinės kritikos objektu. Pasitelkiant ne tik nihilizmo „diagnostikų“ nuostatas, bet ir J. L. Austino, É. Benveniste, G. Agambeno etc. argumentus, straipsnyje oponuojama nihilizmo kaip tikrovės teorijos traktavimui. Atliktas tyrimas demonstruoja negalimybę nihilizmą laikyti paprasčiausia tikrovės teorija ir iškelia reikalavimą nihilizmą traktuoti kaip performatyvą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, kasdienybė, ontologija, performatyvumas, tiesa, tikrovė.Nihilism, Performativity and the Ontology of Everyday LifeRita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the problem of performativity in the treating of nihilism. In order to disclose acute, but at the same time, concealed angles of this problem, the analysis of nihilism is being turned to the so called “ontology” of everyday life. The theoretical approach of Maurizio Ferraris ensure the rich field of investigation as well as provide with the object of theoretical critics. By using theoretical attitudes of the “diagnosticians” of nihilism as well as the arguments of Austin, Benveniste, Agamben etc., the article discusses and opposes the nihilism as the theory of reality. The investigation demonstrates the impossibility to understand nihilism as a simple theory of reality and discloses the requirement to reconsider nihilism as the performative.Keywords: nihilism, everyday life, ontology, performativity, true, reality.
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "NIHILIZMAS LIETUVOJE, ARBA KAS BENDRA TARP A. ŠLIOGERIO IR E. SEVERINO." Problemos 73 (January 1, 2008): 42–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2008.0.2020.
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Kaip nihilizmo problemos kėlimo bei nihilizmo ir Niekio problemos nealternatyvaus traktavimo pavyzdžius autorė analizuoja E. Severino ir A. Šliogerio filosofiją. Nihilizmo ištakų analizė rodo, kad būtent loginė (onto-loginė) nihilizmo plotmė provokuoja nihilizmo kritiką. Šiuolaikinės ontologijos radikali orientacija – neoparmenidiškoji laikysena, atstovaujama Severino, – nihilizmą taip pat laiko loginiu „defektu“. Autorė parodo, kad nors Severino save ir išbraukia iš Vakarų mąstytojų, „užmiršusių būtį“, t. y. mąsčiusių nihilistiškai, šis iškėlimas nėra Vakarų ontologinės tradicijos užginčijimas, o atvirkščiai – yra jos aktualizavimas. Šliogerio filosofijoje išvengiama „pačios būties“ požiūrio nulemto nihilizmo skelbimo: Šliogeris nihilizmo problemą įšaknija antropologiškai. Šliogeriui nihilizmo skelbimo ir jo konceptualizavimo horizontą sudaro savitas svyravimas tarp retorinės ir antropologinės plotmių. Šliogeriui nihilistinis yra mąstymas, kuriame ne Niekis yra tapęs Būties duoties būdu, o kaip tik mąstymas, kuriame Būtis visada buvusi Niekio duoties būdas. Autorė problemiškai klausia – kaip įmanoma ir ar įmanoma skelbti nihilizmą, užginčijant Būtį kaip pirminę metafizinę duotį ir šitaip iškeliant save anapus Vakarų mąstymo tradicijos? Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, Niekis, Būtis, logos, Vakarų mąstymas.Nihilism in Lithuania or – What Is in Common between A. Šliogeris and E. Severino?Rita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the philosophy of Emanuele Severino and Arvydas Šliogeris as two cases of the non-alternative treatment of the history of nihilism. The analysis of the fountainhead of nihilism demonstrantes that the critics of nihilism is being evocated on a logical (onto-logical) level. The radical orientation of contemporary philosophy – neoparmenidian one – which is namely representated by E. Severino, treats nihilism as a logical “defect”. While Severino excludes himself from those Western thinkers, who “have forgotten” the Being, according to the author, this elimination is not the contestation of Western ontological tradition, but, on the contrary, its actualization. Šliogeris avoids the treating of the nihilism as determinated by the attitude of “Being itself” as he roots the nihilism antropologically. The horizon of the proclamation and the conceptualization of the nihilism, for Šliogeris, is composed of the particular fluctuation (variation) between the rhetorical and antropological levels. For him, the thought is a nihilistic one not in the case when Nothingness has become a mode of the giveness of Being, but when the Being is a mode of giveness of Nothingness. The author questions – how it is possible or whether it is possible to proclaim the nihilism, while contesting the Being as the primordial metaphysical giveness, and taking this way yourself out of the tradition of Western philosophy? Keywords: nihilism, Nothingness, Being, logos, Western thought./span>
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Luks, Leo. "FILOSOFIJOS IR LITERATŪROS SUSILIEJIMAS NIHILISTINIAME MĄSTYME." Problemos 77 (January 1, 2010): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2010.0.1895.
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Šiuo straipsniu siekiama parodyti, kad postmetafizinė filosofija turėtų liautis mėgdžiojusi formalias mokslo taisykles ir verčiau suintensyvintų dialogą su menu, o ypač – su literatūra. Daugiausia remiamasi Gianni Vattimo, pasak kurio turėtume priimti nihilizmą ir sutikti, kad joks teorinis naratyvas nėra teisingas epistemologine prasme ir negali pretenduoti į atitiktį realybei. Remiantis nihilizmu kaip prielaida, tenka pripažinti radikalų kontingentiškumą, vadinasi, sutikti, kad jokia samprotavimo linkmė nebus amžina. Taip filosofinis mąstymas tampa silpnuoju, atsisako savo paties validumo pretenzijų, ir prasideda nauja filosofijos ir literatūros dialogo epocha, paženklinta jų susiliejimo žyme.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, hermeneutika, literatūra, niekis, postmodernus.The Fusion of Philosophy and Literature in Nihilist ThoughtLeo Luks SummaryIn this paper, I will attempt to demonstrate that post-metaphysical philosophy should cease its attempts to imitate the formal rules of science and rather intensify its dialogue with art, especially literature. I will draw on the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, according to whom we should accept nihilism and admit that no theoretical narrative is true in the sense of corresponding to reality. Acceptance of nihilism amounts to the acceptance of radical contingency, where no line of argument is everlasting. As philosophical thinking is weakened in this manner, and as it lets go of the presumption of its own validity, a new era will arrive in the dialogue between philosophy and literature by their fusion.Keywords: nihilism, hermeneutics, literature, nothingness, postmodern.: 18px;">
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ŠERPYTYTĖ, Rita. "„TIKĖTI, KAD TIKI“: NUO DOSTOJEVSKIO STAVROGINO IKI GIANNI VATTIMO." Religija ir kultūra 3 (January 1, 2006): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/relig.2006.0.2809.
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Straipsnyje svarstomas tikėjimo ir nihilizmo santykis Gianni Vattimo filosofijoje. Analizuojama Vattimo pozicija, patį nihilizmą traktuojanti kaip „silpnojo mąstymo“ (hermeneutinę) pastangą. „Silpnasis mąstymas“ save apsibrėžia kaip pastangą , skirtingai nei moderno filosofija suprantančią santykį su ankstesnių epochų filosofiniu palikimu ir kitaip traktuojančią patį (metafizikos) įveikos reikalavimą. Įveika Vattimo jau nebeturi tiesiog neigimo ar peržengimo prasmės, bet turi atsisveikinimo vyksmo prasmę. Tokioje perspektyvoje tikėjimo samprata ir ontologijos paieškos tampa susietos su nihilizmu, traktuojamu jau pozityvia prasme.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: tikėjimas, religija, nihilizmas, Būtis, hermeneutika.“BELIEVE THAT BELIEVE”: FROM DOSTOJEVKY’S STAVROGIN TO GIANNI VATTIMORita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the relation between faith and nihilism in Gianni Vattimo philosophy. The position of Vattimo, treating nihilism as (hermeneutical) attempt of weak thought, is analysed. Weak thought describes itself as the attempt of thinking that approaches to the relation with the philosophical heritage of previous epochs differently and treats the very demand of overcoming (metaphysics) otherwise. The overcoming for Vattimo doesn‘t have the meaning of simple negation or transgresion already; it obtains the sense of farewal movement to metaphysics. In such perspective the search of the ontology links to nihilism, which is treated already in the positive meaning – as the last chance.Keywords: faith, religion, nihilism, Being, hermeneutics.
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Lazarev, Vladimir A., and Tatyana Yu Larina. "Ch. Palahniuk’s Novel «Fight Club» in Terms of F. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Nihilism." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 4 (December 25, 2022): 193–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2022-4-193-203.
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Based on the material of Ch. Palahniuk’s novel «Fight Club», the article examines the nihilistic predestination of the antihero’s split personality, taking into account F. Nietzsche’s conception. The aim of the study is to prove that the anonymous narrator and the character of Tyler Durden’s images, symbolizing two fragments of the antihero’s personality, manifest the passive and active nihilistic position, respectively. The research is carried out in the format of the comparative approach, which is aimed at identifying the features of Ch. Palahniuk’s creative reception of Nietzsche’s nihilistic ideas, parallels in their metaphysical worlds. The study showed that in order to highlight the process of disintegration of postmodern reality, Ch. Palahniuk uses the main provisions of Nietzsche’s philosophy of nihilism. The novel is interpreted in terms of F. Nietzsche’s philosophy, since it systematically reveals all aspects of nihilism. The characters’ images are based on the theory of religious, radical and complete nihilism. The concept of nihilism is explicated at the personal, psychological and sociological level of the narrative. Personal and psychological levels are combined in order to create images of religious, radical (active and passive) and complete nihilists. The narrator is a religious nihilist, and as the narrative unfolds, his passive nihilistic position increases. Tyler Durden, the antipode of the narrator’s split personality, turns out to be a complete nihilist. It is concluded that the combination of both fragments of the antihero’s personality forms the image of a radical nihilist who does not reach the stage of complete denial of higher values. The society reproduced in the text of the novel, based on the Christian-Platonic cultural tradition, suffers from religious nihilism. The narrative explicates Nietzsche’s principle of deconstruction in the direction of reconstruction. F. Nietzsche’s views of the complete nihilism as a project of superman are being realized. The superhuman spirit that Tyler possesses pushes his will to power to destroy civilization and instill faith in other characters in their will to power in order to achieve their aspirations, freedom from history, culture and the higher values that control them.
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "PRASMĖS „PRARADIMAS“ IR NIHILIZMO „LOGIKA“." Problemos 75 (January 1, 2009): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2009.0.1976.
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Straipsnyje svarstomas nihilizmo santykis su prasmės (praradimo) problema. Filosofijoje šis santykis dažnai laikomas savaime-suprantamybe. Toks požiūris yra įsitvirtinęs kaip F. Nietszche’s nihilizmo heidegeriškosios interpretacijos nekritiškas perėmimas. Keliamas klausimas, ką iš tiesų reiškia šis nihilizmo tapatinimas su prasmės praradimu? Apie kokį prasmės deficitą kalbama, kai skelbiamas nihilizmas? Straipsnyje interpretuojami romantizmo epochos autorių – Jeano Paulio ir Heinricho von Kleisto – tekstai, atskleidžiantys nihilizmo skelbimo ir prasmės praradimo santykį. Nietzsche nihilizmo ir prasmės santykį „atranda“ teoriškai reflektuotai, įvertindamas ne tik F. Dostojevskio, bet ir romantikų „pamokas“. Parodoma, jog Nietzsche’i prasmės „krizė“ yra susijusi su „dviejų pasaulių“ (tikrojo ir regimybės) demaskavimu. Nietzsche’s interpretacijoje netikėjimas metafiziniu pasauliu, kuris užkerta kelią tikėjimui „tikruoju“ pasauliu, atitinka prasmės praradimo kaip savidemaskacijos „logiką“, o heidegeriškoji Nietzsche’s interpretacija nihilistinį prasmės praradimą ne tik atskleidžia kaip ontologinį/„loginį“ imanentizmo principą, bet ir įgalina nihilizmą atpažinti kaip autoreferentišką Vakarų mąstymo „logiką“.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, prasmė, Dievas, logika, imanentizmas, autoreferencija.“Loss” of Sense and “Logic” of NihilismRita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the problem of the relation between Nihilism and the Loss of Sense, which is often treated in an obvious coherence. The latter approach struck its roots as a non-critical acceptation of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s Nihilism. The article raises the question what the identification of Nihilism with Loss of Sense really means. Moreover, while proclaiming Nihilism, what is meant by the term of Sense Deficit? The article investigates the texts of authors of Romanticism, such as Jean Paul and Heinrich von Kleist, where a relation between the proclamation of Nihilism and the Loss of Sense is disclosed. Nietzsche discovers the relationship between Nihilism and Sense in a theoretically reflected manner. The article demonstrates that for Nietzsche “the crisis” of Sense is related with the unmasking of “two worlds” (the true world and the world of appearance). Non-believing in metaphysical world which blocks the way to the believing in the true world, corresponds, in Nietzsche’s interpretation, to the “logic” of the Loss of Sense as the “logic” of self-unmasking. The Heideggerian interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy not only discloses the nihilistic Loss of Sense as an ontological / logical principle of immanentism, but also enables to recognize Nihilism as a self-referential “logic” of Western thought.Keywords: nihilism, sense, God, logic, immanentism, self-referention.
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "PAKARTOJIMAS IR NIHILIZMAS." Problemos 84 (January 1, 2013): 46–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2013.0.1779.
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Straipsnio tikslas yra atskleisti Vakarų filosofijos tradicijoje savitai įsitvirtinusios patyrimo struktūros, įvardijamos pakartojimu, nihilistinę prasmę. Šioje hermeneutinėje analizėje, viena vertus, remiamasi tam tikra nihilizmo samprata, numatančia du nihilizmo teorinius modelius – nihilizmą, paremtą Überwindung teorija, ir nihilizmą, paremtą différance idėja. Kita vertus, remiamasi tam tikru („onto-teologiniu“) pretekstu Vakarų mąstymo tradicijoje atpažįstant pakartojimo struktūrą – Pauliaus Laiško efeziečiams Ef. I, 10 teksto fragmentu, laikomu paradigmine pakartojimo struktūros išsklaida. Hermeneutinė analizė projektuojama į Kierkegaardo ir Agambeno filosofiją, atskirus jų mąstyme atpažįstamus pakartojimo invariantus atskleidžiant kaip minėto Pauliaus Laiško fragmento eksplozijos atvejus. Keliamas klausimas, kas yra pakartojimas, kur slypi jo negatyvumas ir kaip pasirodo jo nihilistinė prasmė? Kaip šioje negatyvumo ir nihilizmo atskleistyje „tarpininkauja“ différance? Straipsnyje parodoma, jog skirtis kaip neigimo judesys, atstovaujantis nihilistinei logikai, gali būti traktuojamas ir vien formaliai, ir realiai. Skirties kaip realaus neigimo traktavimas Kierkegaardo ir Agambeno mąstyme atitinka pačios patirties struktūros – pakartojimo – ontologinį (tikrovišką) įšaknytumą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: pakartojimas, nihilizmas, différance, negatyvumas, laikasPakartojimas ir nihilizmasRita Šerpytytė AbstractThe purpose of this article is to reveal the nihilistic sense of an experiential structure, which has been distinctively rooted in Western philosophical tradition. On the one hand, this hermeneutical analysis will be based on a certain conception of nihilism presupposing two theoretical models of nihilism – nihilism, which refers to the theory of Überwindung, and nihilism associated with the idea of différance. On the other hand, it builds upon a certain (the so-called “onto-theological”) pretext, which might be used for recognition of the structure of repetition in Western tradition of thinking, – i.e. the fragment of a text from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians Eph. I, 10 – the paradigmatic passage proposing this universal structure of repetition. Focused both on philosophy of Kierkegaard and Agamben, hermeneutical analysis will aim to disclose the separate invariants of such repetition as cases of explosion of the mentioned text fragment. The question is raised – what is repetition? Where does its negativity lie? How does its nihilistic sense appear? How does the différance mediate in this process of revealing of negativity and nihilism? The article argues that difference, as a motion of negation representing nihilistic logic, can be treated both in merely formal and in a realistic way. The treating of différance as real denying in Kierkegaard’s and Agamben’s thinking corresponds to the ontological rootedness of the very structure of experience – repetition.Keywords: repetition, nihilism, différance, negativity, time
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "TIKĖJIMO PARADOKSAS IR NIHILIZMO „LOGIKA“: S. KIERKEGAARDAS." Religija ir kultūra 4 (January 1, 2007): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/relig.2007.0.2803.
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Šiuolaikinės filosofijos, keliančios nihilizmo klausimą, išeities taško pasirinkimas neišvengiamai svyruoja tarp dviejų teorinių perspektyvų – nihilizmo kaip dvasios įvykio ir nihilizmo kaip spekuliatyvaus „įvykio“ traktavimo. Tokiame konceptualiame horizonte iškyla ir atskirų autorių įtraukimo į nihilizmo kontekstą klausimas. Šiame straipsnyje svarstoma ir tokio autoriaus, kuris nebuvo nihilizmo skelbėjas ar teoretikas – Kierkegaardo – įrašymo į nihilizmo istoriją galimybė. Pats nihilizmo svarstymo laukas įima jau ne tik ontologinę problematiką, bet ir nihilizmo „logikos“ problemą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: tikėjimas, nihilizmas, paradoksas, logika, tikrovė.THE PARADOX OF FAITH AND „LOGIC“ OF NIHILISM: S. KIERKEGAARDRita ŠerpytytėSummarySelection of the starting point performed by contemporary philosophy, which raises a question of nihilism, swings between the two theoretical perspectives, i. e. nihilism as spiritual event and nihilism as speculative „event“. In such conceptual horizon we face the question on the interconnection of the thinking of individual authors with the context of nihilism. This article discusses the possibility of attaching the author who was not announcer or theoretician of nihilism – Kierkeggard – to the history of nihilism. Thus, the field of the discussions on nihilism embraces not only the ontological topic, but also the problem of „logic“ of nihilism.Keywords: faith, nihilism, paradox, logic, reality.
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Šerpytytė, Rita. "NIHILIZMAS IR TIKROVĖ: SPEKULIATYVUSIS REALIZMAS – NIHILIZMO BANALIZAVIMAS?" Problemos 81 (January 1, 2012): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2012.0.1295.
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Straipsnis yra skirtas naujausioms nihilizmo teorinėms perspektyvoms aptarti. Laikomasi nuomonės, kad nihilizmo kaip šiuolaikinio pasaulio iššūkio analizė neįmanoma neįvertinus naujausių teorinių požiūrių į patį nihilizmo fenomeną, nepermąsčius nihilizmo „koncepcijos“. Tokį impulsą šiuolaikiniame teoriniame kontekste kaip tik suteikia palyginti nauja, tačiau jau labai įtakinga filosofinė „kryptis“ – vadinamasis spekuliatyvusis realizmas. Straipsnyje kertiniu polemikos su spekuliatyviuoju realizmu tašku laikoma ne vien „naujai“ siūloma nihilizmo „samprata“, bet ypač – iš to išplaukiantis nihilizmo ir tikrovės santykio aptarimas, taip pat su tuo susijęs pačios tikrovės / realybės „koncepto“ suprobleminimas. Akivaizdu, kad nihilizmas „turi kažką bendra“, „yra susijęs“ su tikrovės problema. Tačiau apie kokią tikrovę kalbama? Vietoje „koreliacijos“ su tikrove / realybe principo, iškeldamas realybės principą, spekuliatyvusis realizmas ir Nieką – Nihil – mato kaip nesusaistytą (unbound) Nieką. Nihilizmas tad ima išreikšti ne mūsų(mąstymo) santykį su tikrove (būtimi), o atstovauti steriliai mąstymo galimybei.Nesusaistytas Niekas demonstruoja principinį mąstymo sterilumą tikrovės atžvilgiu, paverčiant ją realybe. Tačiau sykiu išnyksta, tampa banali ir pati nihilizmo problema – radikaliai iš tikrovės „išjungtas“ Niekas – nesusaistytas Niekas – tampa tuščiu mąstymo principu.Ši spekuliatyvųjį realizmą „demaskuojanti“ išvada sykiu yra nuoroda į nihilizmo problemos principinį „turiningumą“ ir „tikroviškumą“.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, tikrovė, realybė, spekuliatyvusis realizmas.Nihilism and Truth: Speculative Realism – Banalisation of Nihilism?Rita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the newest perspectives in the theory of nihilism. The analysis of nihilism as the challenge of contemporary world is impossible without an assessment of recent theoretical approaches to the same phenomenon of nihilism, without rethinking its “concept”. In the given context, a relatively new, but already a very influential philosophical movement, socalled Speculative Realism can stipulate very strong theoretical impulses. The main point of controversy, according to the author, is not only the “novelty” of the concept of nihilism, but reassessment of the relationship between nihilism and reality. It is clear that nihilism has something “in common” with reality, is associated with the problem of reality. However, what kind of reality?Rejecting the principle of “correlation” with reality, Speculative Realism proposes the principle of the reality itself: Nihil or Nothingness is consideredas Nihil Unbound. In this perspective Nihilism does not express one’s relationship with reality, but becomes representative of the sterile possibility ofthinking itself. The sterility of thinking, making the True into reality, at the same time turns the problem of Nihilism into banality: Nihil Unbound representsan empty mind principle. This conclusion, unmasking the speculative realism, also refers to the “truth” and “realism” pertinent to the problem of nihilism.Key words: nihilism, truth, reality, Speculative Realism.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nihilism (Philosophy)"
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Williston, Byron. "The problem of nihilism in the philosophy of Nietzsche." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10203.
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Hernandez, Brian. "Nihilism and the Formulation of a Philosophy of Art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67991/.
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Nihilism is often associated with feelings of despair, hopelessness and meaningless. It is certainly true that once the implications of this philosophy become apparent that these feelings are valid. However, this reaction is merely the first stage of dealing with nihilism and stopping here fails to examine the various types of nihilism that deal specifically with knowledge, ethics, metaphysics, truth, and art. Nihilism at its base is a philosophy that recognizes the history of human thought and what it means to be and to think. My focus is the way in which a completed nihilism is in fact an emancipatory act and the implications it has for art and the artist in the 21st century.
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Olivier, Marco René. "Manifestations of nihilism in selected contemporary media." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/437.
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This study focuses on the concept or phenomenon of nihilism, given the regularity with which it manifests itself (to anyone who is aware of it in more or less theoretical or philosophical terms) in all kinds of cultural artifacts such as films, television shows or series, books such as novels or philosophical texts, and magazines. Most of these artifacts can be grouped together under the heading of the media in the present era. The objective of the study is to use the concept of nihilism to identify and analyse selected cases in contemporary media -- in the form of films and television series – to answer the question, with what kinds of nihilism people would come face to face if they knew how to recognize them. The study begins with an outline of a theoretical framework concerning the concept of nihilism. A number of thinkers’ work is used to come to grips with the complex phenomenon, but mostly it is Nietzsche whose thought seems to be valuable for present purposes. In the second chapter the spotlight falls on what is called (in this study) ‘capitalist nihilism’, which seems to belong with what Nietzsche called ‘passive nihilism’, but also seems to exhibit some aspects of ‘active nihilism’. The third chapter is an examination of nihilism in a foreign (Japanese) culture by concentrating on Japanese anime, to test the differences between Western (historically Christian) culture and one with a different cultural and religious history. The last chapter consists of the analysis of a specific (Western) film, I ‘heart’ Huckabees, which was selected because of the variety of ‘nihilisms’ found in it. The study seems to confirm that nihilism is indeed widespread in contemporary, postmodern culture.
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Jonsson, Jonathan. "Argumenterar Jonathan Tallant framgångsrikt mot mereologisk nihilism?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187520.
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Proponents of mereological nihilism attempt to achieve a simpler metaphysical ideology,a more parsimonious ontology and a solution to paradoxes of composition by denyingthat composition occurs. There are no objects with proper parts, only mereologicalsimples. One criticism of nihilism is that it appears to render propositions in scientificand ordinary language false, such as ‘there is a chair here’. van Inwagen offers usparaphrases of the form ‘there are some simples here arranged chair-wise’ that allowour ordinary language to express a true statement, albeit ontologically imprecise.Bennet argues that this does not really answer the question of composition, it merelymoves it into another one. Instead of ‘when do the xs compose a y?’, the questionbecomes ‘what does the world have to be like for some xs to be arranged y-wise?’Tallant builds on her argument to make the stronger claim that nihilism ultimately fails.This essay examines his argument and contrasts it with Sider’s positive case fornihilism, finding that while Tallant poses a serious challenge to nihilism, it can be met.However, Sider’s replacement of composition with mathematical sets does not doenough to fully answer the challenge of Tallant.
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Boulding, Jacqueline. "Engendering the Overman: On Woman and Nihilism in Nietzsche." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37196.
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This thesis examines the role of woman within Nietzsche’s late-middle period, through The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as well as interrogating the more social or political elements of nihilism, in order to conceptualize a novel reading of Nietzsche’s figure of the Overman. The motivation for this project is to create an understanding of the Overman that stands in stark contrast to those interpretations of Nietzsche advanced and deployed by those on the far-right of the political spectrum, who historically have used Nietzsche’s ideas to justify acts of cruelty and violence through an appeal to preservation of the self and of the same. I begin with the idea that woman is representative of truth for Nietzsche through her embodiment of difference, both internal to herself and within her relationship to man. This view of woman within the thesis is led by the work of Luce Irigaray in her work Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche, and a reading of her work alongside Nietzsche’s Gay Science comprise the first chapter. In the second chapter, I chart different typologies of nihilism as advanced by Gilles Deleuze and Alenka Zupančič in order to probe their status as “universal”. I also delve into the eternal return as the process through which nihilism is overcome and the Overman emerges, as perhaps an eternal return of the different rather than the same. In the final chapter, the lessons from the beginning of the thesis are applied to a reading of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra in order to read difference into that text toward the overcoming of nihilism and the birth of the Overman.
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Morrison, Robert Gerard. "Nihilism and Nietzsche's Buddha : a study of ironic affinities." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333890.
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Johnson, Devon Ralston. "A Philosophical Analysis of Nihilism and Antiblack Racism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/242733.
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This dissertation offers a philosophical analysis of nihilism and antiblack racism. I argue that nihilism, the phenomenon espoused by Friedrich Nietzsche, is an implicit feature of antiblack racism. As a result of the implicit nihilism involved in antiblack racism, black existential life occupies a black nihilistic situation. In response to the black nihilistic situation, one can respond either weakly, as I argue is the case with Cornel West and Derrick Bell, or strongly, as I argue is the case with Frantz Fanon. I conclude that strong black nihilism is a healthy response to nihilism and antiblack racism because it is a trans-valuation of traditional forms of antiblack racist valuing, which exemplifies a commitment to the language and action of constructing non-decadent human worlds premised upon the existential freedom and responsibility of all human beings.
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Wallenstein, Sven-Olov. "Nihilism, Art, and Technology." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38737.
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The thesis investigates the role of technology in the formation of the artistic avant-garde, along with various forms of philosophical reflection on this development, with a particular emphasis on Heidegger. Setting out from an analysis of three paradigmatic cases in the interplay between art and technology—the invention of photography, the shift from Futurism to Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—it proceeds to a discussion of three philosophical responses to this development, those found in Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Jünger, all of which share a certain avant-garde sensibility and a notion of art as a response to nihilism. In Heidegger’s postwar writings we see a retreat from the positions of the mid 1930s, and in his reflections on technology a different answer emerges to the question of whether “great art” is still possible: great art is an art that exists precisely by making the founding of a world into something problematic. The fourth part confronts Heidegger’s analysis of technology with the work of an individual artist, the architect Mies van der Rohe, and asks how the “silence”—the withdrawal of language, sense, aesthetic perception, etc.—that is often understood as a precondition for the critical potential of his work should in fact be understood. By examining interpretations that draw on Heidegger via comparisons with other types of critical theory, a different understanding emerges of the relation among nihilism, art, and technology. They form a field of constant modulation, which implies that the concepts that have been the foundation of critical theory, nature, subjectivity, experience, even “being” in Heidegger’s sense, must be subjected to a historical analysis that acknowledges them as ongoing processes of construction, and that also accounts for the capacity of technologies and artistic practices to intervene in the formation of philosophical concepts.The chapters 5, 6 and 7 in the monograph Essays, Lectures for a part of the Ph.D.thesis.
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Ansell-Pearson, K. J. "Nihilism and the will : A study of Nietzsche's moral and political philosophy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381594.
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Johnson, Steven Mark. "Was Nietzsche a nihilist?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBooks on the topic "Nihilism (Philosophy)"
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Stanley, Rosen. Nihilism: A philosophical essay. South Bend, Ind: St. Augustine's Press, 2000.
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Weller, Shane. Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528.
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Gillespie, Michael Allen. Nihilism before Nietzsche. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Richard, Wolin, ed. Martin Heidegger and European nihilism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
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Jean-François, Mattéi, ed. Nietzsche et le temps des nihilismes. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2005.
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1960-, Ansell-Pearson Keith, and Morgan Diane 1963-, eds. Nihilism now!: Monsters of energy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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Doyle, Tsarina. Nietzsche's aesthetic response to nihilism. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1996.
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Jukola, Saana. "Medical Nihilism." In Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, 1–12. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_96-1.
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Weller, Shane. "Introduction: What’s in a Name?" In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 1–10. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_1.
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Weller, Shane. "Conclusion: Nihilism at the Door." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 212–15. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_10.
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Weller, Shane. "Absolute Devaluation: Friedrich Nietzsche." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 11–34. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_2.
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Weller, Shane. "Homelessness: Martin Heidegger." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 35–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_3.
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Weller, Shane. "Fatal Positivities: Theodor Adorno." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 63–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_4.
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Weller, Shane. "The Naïve Calculation of the Negative: Maurice Blanchot." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 86–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_5.
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Weller, Shane. "Bad Violence: Jacques Derrida." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 111–36. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_6.
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Weller, Shane. "The Fracture: Giorgio Agamben." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 137–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_7.
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Weller, Shane. "Distortions, or Nihilism Against Itself: Gianni Vattimo." In Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism, 163–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583528_8.
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Bergman, Ryan. "Embracing Nihilism as a Software Development Philosophy and the Birth of the Big Book of Dead Code." In 2012 Agile Conference. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/agile.2012.14.
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Lonergan, Hamish. "Explicitly Tacit: Polanyi’s “Tacit Knowledge” in the Architectural Theory of Charney and Rowe." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4003p7gqw.
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The scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi coined the term “tacit knowledge” in 1958 to describe a type of unconscious, embodied and social knowledge that could not be explicitly taught through rules or rote-learning. He argued, instead, that some knowledge relied on practice, critique, socialisation and personal biography. In this sense, something like tacit knowledge has long played an important role in architectural education — where skill is acquired through (re)drawing, writing and model-making, reviewed by teachers and peers — even before Polanyi named it. Yet, for all the affinities between design education and tacit knowledge, Polanyi’s epistemology has rarely been directly addressed in architectural theory. This paper considers two exceptions in the writing and pedagogy of Melvin Charney and Colin Rowe in the 1970s. Both figures used Polanyi’s philosophy to propose alternatives to the “ultra” positions of Modernism. Charney argued that Quebecois vernacular architecture reflected a tacit, collective building culture that was inseparable from the embodied construction practices of craftspeople. This could not be made explicit in construction manuals or histories; students had to discover it through drawing and building themselves. Meanwhile, Rowe credited Polanyi’s Beyond Nihilism (1960) in the gestation of Collage City (1978, with Fred Koetter). Polanyi’s essay argued that individual freedom was important in making new discoveries, but that individuals still had a responsibility to go beyond themselves by conforming to collective norms and standards. This, too, found a parallel in Rowe and Koetter’s rejection of Modernist utopianism. At the same time, a close reading of these minor encounters reveals certain continuities and misalignments between Rowe and Charney’s interpretation and Polanyi’s own position as a prominent anti-Communist and contributor to early neoliberalism. Ultimately, this paper aims to clarify the role of tacit knowledge in the theory of these two architect/educators and, in doing so, simultaneously clarify the relationship between tacit knowledge and architectural pedagogy more broadly.