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Wade, Jeffrey Jacob. "Nihilism Unbound: Strauss, Nietzsche and Foucault as Nihilist Thinkers." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/396.

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Many of the writings of Leo Strauss were dedicated to combating the "crisis of modernity". This crisis was for him the advent and acceptance of nihilism--a state of being wherein any principle one dare dream is allowed and judgment must be withheld. He claimed that the promotion of nihilism at the hands of modern social scientists would lead to the downfall of civilization. Yet, this work seeks to show that all of these claims are made by Strauss in an attempt to hide the "truth" of nihilism from the masses and that Strauss, in fact, is a nihilist thinker. The introductory chapter of this work
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Vesely-Manning, Josee. "Magic Nihilism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20025.

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Magic Nihilism conceptually alludes to a present encounter with current geo-­political and environmental crisis, global hegemony and the material ruins and waste of late capitalism (and its political precedents) with ontological direction led by the emerging movement of New Materialism, theories on the Anthropocene and the ongoing post-­human dialectics in relation to contemporary art practice. In this paper I discuss how within this framework and in my art practice associations with "magic nihilism" are implied through the correlation and intersection with matter as both a physical and metaph
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Mouna, Mazen. "Attraction du vide et du nihilisme dans l'oeuvre de Maurice Blanchot." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MULH4413.

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Nous avons opté pour l’étude du vide et du nihilisme dans l’œuvre de Maurice Blanchot, un écrivain-penseur qui suscite actuellement un intérêt grandissant tant en France qu’à l’étranger. En effet, notre présente étude recouvre une période très riche de mutations politiques, historiques, économiques, sociales, culturelles s’étendant de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle jusqu’à la fin de ce qu’on appelle l’époque postmoderne. Au sein de ces mutations qui ont marqué l’histoire de l’Occident à cette époque, l’homme occidental se trouve en crise, étonné, choqué par ce désordre qui commence à s’infi
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Gilbert, Brian. "Nietzsche and nihilism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/NQ41070.pdf.

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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 Hei
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Slocombe, Will. "Postmodern nihilism : theory and literature." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/740d7998-8998-4ef7-9514-4174d05cec4a.

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This thesis examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into two parts: theory and literature. Beginning with histories of nihilism and the sublime, the Enlightenment is constructed as a conflict between the two. Rather than promote a simple binarism, however, nihilism is constructed as a temporally-displaced form of sublimity that is merely labelled as nihilism because of the dominant ideologies at the time. Postmodernism, as a product of the Enlightenment, is therefore implicitly related to both nihilism and the sublime, despite the
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Smith, Toby. "Nihilism in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Levinas." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2652/.

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This thesis presents an account of nihilism in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and a critical response to it using the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas. Chapter one gives an account of the three different types of nihilism in Nietzsche’s writings, and of how the latest outbreak of nihilism, modern European, came about. Chapter two presents Nietzsche's own responses to modern European nihilism, focusing on the overman, the will to power, the eternal recurrence and his view of truth, and points out the disturbing ethical implications of Nietzsche's responses to nihili
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І, Diachuk M. "MANIFESTATIONS OF NIHILISM IN MODERN SOCIETY." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/28067.

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Snowball, Arryn. "Delineating Nihilism: Colin McCahon's Last Paintings." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368119.

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This thesis analyses a series of text paintings by New Zealand artist Colin McCahon, and proposes that by delineating nihilism, they resist being nihilistic. All four paintings, The Emptiness of All Endeavour: Triptych, Is There Anything of Which One Can Say, Look This Is New?, I Applied My Mind, and I Considered All the Acts of Oppression (painted between 1980 and 1982), draw their text from ‘The Book of Ecclesiastes’, as translated in the New English Bible (1970). While previous discussions of the works have tended to emphasise the biographical element of the works (i.e., McCahon’s life and
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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
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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 arg
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Craig, Benjamin Taylor. "The aesthetic turn in the face of nihilism." Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85954.

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This thesis outlines one's overcoming of nihilism by consulting two figures, Martin Heidegger and John Dewey. Each thinker holds a pivotal role for art, such that, a turn to the aesthetic allows the individual to overcome this nihilistic age. I intend to show that Heidegger and Dewey mutually inform each other's project. Heidegger is able to shed light on Dewey's project; however, Dewey ultimately takes Heidegger's thought a step further. Heidegger understands the current age to be overcome with nihilism as a consequence of modern technological enframing as well the end of classical religious
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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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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>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 respons
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Laborie, Karine. "Métaphysique et politique à l'épreuve du nihilisme." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENP003/document.

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Cette thèse ne propose pas une variation sur la thématique de la mort de Dieu et ses retombées, mais une enquête sur un mode de penser disqualifié, le nihilisme, susceptible de renouveler un diagnostic sur la crise de la modernité. La menace du nihilisme prend consistance dès l'émergence du scepticisme en Grèce ancienne. Passée au crible de l'histoire de la métaphysique et de la prise de pouvoir des mouvements totalitaires, la mise en équivalence nihilisme-scepticisme mérite d'être interrogée. Elle n'est recevable que si les formes anciennes et modernes prises par le scepticisme sont autant de
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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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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 a
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Glassford, John. "Nihilism and modernity : political response in a godless age." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57953/.

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In this thesis I argue that following Hegel's commitment to both political philosophy and political theory, Max Stirner, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche take flight from doing political theory in the 'Western' tradition. I demonstrate that Stirner, Marx and Nietzsche all use their own respective notions of political philosophy to criticise the very idea of doing political theory per . re. The evidence for this is to be found in both their refusal to do political theory and in their notions of prophetic agency. I further argue that this development is bound-up with their particular responses
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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 em
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Qiu, Kui. "Heroic nihilism: Buddhism in the work of Nikos Kazantzakis." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392113274.

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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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Glassford, John. "Nihilism and modernity : political response in a Godless age." n.p, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Johnson, Steven Mark. "Was Nietzsche a nihilist?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Elamin, Ali. "Nietzsche on truth in the contexts of nihilism and health." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2108.

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Kim, Kevin D. "Nihilism, American Style: The Americanization of the Idea of Culture." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7075.

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There are at least three major moments of nihilism in American intellectual history. Against European tradition, Emerson had advanced a conception of culture that was radically interpretive, pluralistic and anti-foundationalist, and this eventually worked its way back into the United States through the social sciences (via Nietzsche and then Weber). Likewise, American pragmatist philosophy, conceiving science as serving plural values rooted in human needs, originated with Emerson. The various European conceptions of value had always conceived value as objective and transcendent, and this was r
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Caves, Richard Laurence John. "Metaontology, emergence and theory choice : in defence of Mereological Nihilism." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8298/.

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This thesis offers detailed remarks on debates in metametaphysics, the question of ontological emergence and the merits of extra-empirical theory choice criteria, such as ontological and ideological parsimony, in the course of defending Mereological Nihilism (nihilism). Part I is primarily a discussion of the metaontology of the composition debate and how nihilism begins to look like a more attractive theory once a certain metaontological framework is adopted. §0. provides an overview of the background assumptions of my thesis and outlines the dialectical strategy I will be employing. §1. Expl
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Nallis, Stephane. "Production, vie matérielle, éternité : enquête sur les modalités théologico-politiques du nihilisme contemporain et sur la possibilité d'un monde." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20013.

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Partant du constat que l’homme est ce vivant qui a à créer son propre milieu de vie, nous nous interrogeons ici sur ce que le rapport (sémiotique) des hommes à leur environnement présuppose comme rapport (symbolique) des hommes entre eux. Plus précisément, nous cherchons à cerner comment la technoscience façonne un milieu adéquat à la perpétuation des rapports sociaux capitalistes, en particulier en ce qui concerne sa dimension temporelle. Comme le soutenait la Théorie critique, les progrès de la rationalité s’accomplissent paradoxalement dans une parfaite mystification de la logique sociale q
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Herrero, Senés Joan. "Nihilismo y literatura de entreguerras en España (1918-1936)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7432.

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En esta tesis se interpreta a través del prisma conceptual del nihilismo el desarrollo de la literatura española de entreguerras, y el papel central de los escritores en el reconocimiento de desorientación del hombre moderno. <br/><br/>Primero se analiza teóricamente el concepto de nihilismo; luego se proporciona una descripción del contexto ideológico-estético de entreguerras, la coyuntura de la literatura de vanguardia y la cuestión de la jovialidad del Arte Nuevo ante una profunda crisis de valores. Posteriormente se atiende diacrónicamente a las interrelaciones del Arte Nuevo con el nihili
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Tattersall, Mason. "The concept of authenticity in Heidegger's Being and Time: thoughts and revisions on a critical theme." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/350.

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Addressing the meaning of Martin Heidegger's much-discussed concept of 'authenticity',this study challenges the view, put forward by Charles Guignon and others, that that concept chiefly concerns the significance that an individual life can acquire. Emphasizing the crucial distinction between relational and transcendant meaning, the study sees that distinction as critical to Heidegger's treatment of authenticity, and, more broadly, to the manner in which authenticity figures in the situating of Being and Time in the general context of nihilism and belief Drawing on arguments put forward by Hub
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Duman, Musa. "The Growing Desert: Nihilism And Metaphysics In Martin Heidegger&#039." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610512/index.pdf.

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ABSTRACT THE GROWING DESERT: NIHILISM AND METAPHYSICS IN HEIDEGGER&rsquo<br>S THOUGHT Duman, Musa Ph. D., Department of Philosophy Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Ahmet inam March 2009, 209 pages In this study, we explore Heidegger&rsquo<br>s understanding of nihilism as the essential dimension of metaphysics, of metaphysical experience of Being, and in the following, we address his responses to it. Heidegger takes nihilism as rooted in the metaphysical way of thinking, hence metaphysics and nihilism standing in a primordial identity. Such metaphysical way of thinking as a framework in which Being is e
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Bull, Jeoffrey Steven. "Trying nothing, appraisals on nihilism in American fiction of the 1970s." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27883.pdf.

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Kyzer, Dan. "Beyond Nothingness: A Broader Nihilism in Cinema Paradiso by Stephen Goss." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538670/.

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Stephen Goss composed Cinema Paradiso, a six-movement suite for solo guitar, as an homage to films and film directors. Goss cites nihilism as a theme in Dogville, the film that inspires the fourth movement, "Mandalay," but I assert that all the films and many musical devices throughout the piece can be read through the lens of nihilism. The first movement, "Paris, Texas," depicts the stark landscape of the opening scene of the 1984 Wim Wenders film of the same name. "Modern Times" chronicles Charlie Chaplin's slapstick-laden descent from the factory to the insane asylum in the opening sequence
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Simmons, Scott M. "Nihilism and Argumentation: a Weakly Pragmatic Defense of Authoritatively Normative Reasons." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1589996802190052.

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Collins, Peter. "Some contemporary atheist and Christian responses to moral nihilism and amoralism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d4c208c4-eef0-4d14-973a-f64adf90c7e9.

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If the universe and our lives within it exist for no purpose and are destined to be annihilated for ever in death, perhaps nothing much matters including how we live and treat others. In particular, we may never have good reason to make substantial, enduring and uncompensated sacrifices of our own interests here and now in order to secure the interests of others. This is especially so in seeking realise our ambitions through pursiuing fame and fortune in competitive careers. Part One sets out three challenges to any morality which requires some unselfishness: from the perennial facts about the
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Catone, Giuseppina. "Vattimo e Severino. Sulle tracce del nichilismo nietzscheano." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399923.

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El proyecto se ha propuesto investigar la obra de dos filósofos contemporáneos, Emanuele Severino y Gianni Vattimo, siguiendo el hilo rojo de la suspensión que domina el pensamiento en general y el pensamiento nihilista en particular a partir de la reflexión nietzscheana. En primer lugar, era necesario comprender el porqué y el cómo de esta suspensión. Y también el porqué y el cómo de la suspensión heideggeriana. Se han detectado las consecuencias más evidentes de esta evolución del pensamiento y se ha observado, a través de una investigación a fondo de la obra de estos autores, cómo ambos
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Starrs, Roy. "The mask and the hammer : nihilism in the novels of Mishima Yukio." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27201.

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This thesis offers an analysis of some of the major novels of Mishima Yukio in the light of their underlying nihilist world-view. There are primarily three different levels to the analysis: philosophical, psychological and moral/political, to each of which a chapter is devoted. In the treatment of each of these "levels" the focus is not merely on the nihilism per se but on the aesthetic consequences of the nihilism in Mishima's art of fiction. An attempt is also made to place Mishima, as a "nihilist writer", within the international context of the nihilist literary/philosophical tradition, a t
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Birrell, Ross John. "The theatre of destruction : anarchism, nihilism & the avant-garde, 1909-1945." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2912/.

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This thesis argues that theatricalization is an appropriate paradigm to employ in a political reassessment of the historical avant-garde moments of Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. Through an analysis of the performativity and theatricality of the manifestos and manifestations of these successive avant-garde, it is suggested that each avant-garde moment self-dramatizes a destructive character. An argument is then developed that the destructive character of the avant-garde demonstrates and displays a libertarian-barbarian dialectic which emerges from within the discourses of anarchism and nihilis
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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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Brimhall, Kristen A. "Processing Nihilism: The Struggle for Valuative Supremacy in Javier Marí­as' Berta Isla." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8964.

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Nihilism is a popular and heavily studied topic which is prominently displayed in Javier Marí­as' novel Berta Isla. In this article, both Nietzschean and Heideggerian concepts of nihilism will be identified and analyzed within the context of Marí­­as's novel. Through textual analysis, the origin of nihilism will be explored as it relates to the will to power and valuative schema of the individual. It will be suggested that nihilism stems from valuative thinking induced by the herd-mentality of a community and that the fulfillment of such is the acceptance of absolute truth grounded in being an
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Werner, Griffin. "Nishitani Keiji’s Solution to the Problem of Nihilism: The Way to Emptiness." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585400605200888.

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Gingras, Gisèle. "Le nihilisme nietzschéen dans la philosophie de la religion de Nishitani Keiji /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69614.

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Two texts by Nishitani, written ten years apart, reflect a very different position on the nietzschean question of the overcoming of nihilism. Although a student of Heidegger's at Freiburg between 1936 and 1939, Nishitani shows no evidence of a heideggerian influence in The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism. In this period (1949), he considers, contrary to Heidegger, that the affirmative aspects of nietzschean philosophy constitute a radical overcoming of nihilism. It is only in What is Religion? (1961) which appears in 1982 as Religion and Nothingness (English translation) that his view changes, ref
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Sealey, David. "The worldview of Oliver Heaviside." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302434.

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Pires, de Oliveira Dias Gustavo. "A Philosophically Appealing Nietzschean Theory of Value." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1252.

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This thesis is an attempt to bring forth a novel and philosophically appealing reading of Nietzsche, especially as it pertains to his theory of value. I define philosophically appealing as the view with the least amount of inconsistencies that still reaches a simple and logical conclusion. I explore questions regarding Nietzsche’s nihilism, his normative and metaphysical claims, as well as his view on human nature. I aim to satisfy sophisticated readers by investigating complex philosophical issues related to my interpretation of Nietzsche. I also aim to satisfy less sophisticated readers by e
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Yilmaz, Victoria Bilge. "Nietzschean Nihilism And The Ways To Overcome It In Tom Murphy&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609712/index.pdf.

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Nietzschean epistemology involved many subversive elements and, thus, posed a challenge to the Christian epistemology and to other traditional frames of references which appeared after the Enlightenment. With his philosophy Nietzsche problematised many of the traditional givens like the master signifier (God), the other organising principles, and the traditional binary oppositions on which the Western metaphysics was based. He shattered the previous parameters of existence irraparably when he disconnected the individual from his/her illusions by laying bare a decentered universe devoid of any
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Fox, Devon. "Kierkegaard’s Solution to the Problem of Nihilism: Inwardness and The Paradox of Faith." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1745.

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The study of history and philosophy reveals that there have been as many systems of morality as there have been distinct civilizations, and that doubts about morality are inevitable. From growing apathy towards political life to increasing cultural acceptance and toleration of what might be considered immorality in every aspect of society, in today’s modern world it is difficult not to notice these doubts creeping into our way of life. This vacuum of values and tendency towards a weariness and indifference towards life is what is generally called Nihilism. Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy illu
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Mortson, Darrin Douglas. "Neither nihilism nor absolutism : on comparing the middle paths of Nāgārjuna and Derrida." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83133.

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The current study examines several recent comparisons made between the writings of Nagarjuna and Derrida. The main question under examination is why in particular should such a comparison of two widely different thinkers hold obvious appeal for contemporary scholars? In an attempt to answer this question the comparisons of Robert Magliola, David Loy, Harold Coward and others are analysed as are critiques of this type of comparison presented by Richard Hayes, A. Bharati and others. It is concluded that the basis for these comparisons is a strong concern for a "middle way" perspective bet
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Chamberlain, Franc. "Embodying the spirit : Nihilism and spiritual renovation in the European theatre (1890-1914)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317568.

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CASTRO, MARIA EDUARDA OLIVEIRA. "MODERN NIHILISM AND CONSUMMATION OF THE METHAPHYSICS: A HEIDEGGERIAN`S READING OF NIETZSCHE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22333@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Aquilo que Martin Heidegger considera o niilismo moderno e a consu-mação da metafísica constituiriam, segundo ele, dois dos grandes fundamentos do pensamento nietzschiano e do que seria uma época moderna. A filosofia de Nietzsche é a que melhor reflete os rumos da metafísica, no sentido do resgate de sua essência no mundo grego, e da descoberta, aí, de seu caráter eminentemente niilista. Isto pressupõe uma consumação, um esgotamento da metafísica, mas também o descortinar de u
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Cavendish-Jones, Colin. "Pavilioned on nothing : nihilism and its counterforces in the works of Oscar Wilde." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3515.

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This thesis explores the role of Nihilism in Oscar Wilde's thought and writing, beginning with the depiction of Russian Political Nihilism in Wilde's first play; Vera, or the Nihilists and tracing the engagement with philosophical Nihilism in his fiction, drama and essays, up to and including De Profundis. It is argued that Russian Political Nihilism derives from the same sources and expresses the same concerns as the philosophical Nihilism discussed by Nietzsche in The Will to Power, and that Nietzsche and Wilde, working independently, came to a strikingly similar understanding of Nihilism. P
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Wolfson, Kevin. "Existential Doubt, The Burden of Choice, and Contemporary Nihilism in the 21st Century." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1663.

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This thesis seeks to identify, explain, and differentiate the problems of existential doubt and the burden of choice in today’s world versus the previous epochs of human existence. It will attempt to discern the relevant differences in the types of existential doubt, illustrate how these differences came about, and analyze the strength of a potential solution to these problems. My aim is to critique Dreyfus and Kelly’s portrayal and solution to these problems in a way that can further promulgate discussion on an increasingly relevant topic in philosophy, mental health, and science. The conclus
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Jutila, Alexander Lee. ""An Abyss of Anarchy, Nihilism, and Despair"| Historical Representations of Anarchists in Britain." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419186.

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<p> Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using British print media, this thesis explores other political, cultural, and social representations of anarchists in an effort to expand the field beyond a strict focus on terrorism. In addition, this thesis will also investigate the ways Cesare Lombroso and Havelock Ellis shaped discussions of anarchists in the British public sphere.</p><p>
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