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Altizer, Thomas J. J. (1997). "Review: Nihilism before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie and Metaphysics by Michel Haar & Michael Gendre". The Journal of Religion. University of Chicago Press. 77 (2): 328–330. doi: 10.1086/490005. JSTOR 1205805. Petrov, Kristian (2019). " 'Strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of 1860s Russian nihilism and its notion of negation". Stud East Eur Thought. 71 (2): 73–97. doi: 10.1007/s11212-019-09319-4. S2CID 150893870. Russian nihilism did not imply, as one might expect from a purely semantic viewpoint, a universal "negation" of ethical normativity, the foundations of knowledge or the meaningfulness of human existence. The basis of Sartre’s existentialism is the phrase ‘existence precedes essence,’ meaning no general account of what it means to be human can be given, and that meaning can only be decided and constructed through existence itself. Kierkegaard, Søren (1978/1846), The Two Ages: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 14, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong, and Edna H. Hong, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-07226-5.

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Gillespie, Michael Allen (1996). Nihilism Before Nietzsche. University of Chicago Press. p.139. ISBN 9780226293486. This nihilist movement was essentially Promethean."; "It has often been argued that Russian nihilism is little more than skepticism or empiricism. While there is a certain plausibility to this assertion, it ultimately fails to capture the millenarian zeal the characterized Russian nihilism. These nihilists were not skeptics but passionate advocates of negation and liberation. Existentialists believe the world intrinsically has no objective meaning, but through a combination of free will, awareness, and personality responsibility, we can create our own subjective meaning.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Frank, Joseph (1995). Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865–1871. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01587-2. Larkin E. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: The End of Reason and the Void. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques. 26(3):387–403. Bhikkhu Bodhi. "Pali-English Glossary" and "Index of Subjects." In The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikkaya. Harman, Gilbert (1977). The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195021431. OCLC 2725781.

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Existential nihilism is the belief that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. It suggests that each human and even the entire human species is insignificant, without purpose, and unlikely to change in existence’s totality.Gillespie, Michael Allen (1996), Nihilism Before Nietzsche, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Anton Chekhov portrayed nihilism when writing Three Sisters. The phrase "what does it matter" or variants of this are often spoken by several characters in response to events; the significance of some of these events suggests a subscription to nihilism by said characters as a type of coping strategy. Lovell, Stephen (1998). "Nihilism, Russian". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-E072-1. ISBN 9780415250696. Nihilism was a broad social and cultural movement as well as a doctrine. a b "Nichilismo". Enciclopedia Italiana: Enciclopedia online (in Italian). Treccani: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana . Retrieved October 30, 2020. Extreme metaphysical nihilism, also sometimes called ontological nihilism, is the position that nothing actually exists at all. [101] [102] The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines one form of nihilism as "An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence." [103] A similar skepticism concerning the concrete world can be found in solipsism. However, despite the fact that both views deny the certainty of objects' true existence, the nihilist would deny the existence of self, whereas the solipsist would affirm it. [104] Both of these positions are considered forms of anti-realism.

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Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Scholars of nihilism may regard it as merely a label that has been applied to various separate philosophies, [7] or as a distinct historical concept arising out of nominalism, skepticism, and philosophical pessimism, as well as possibly out of Christianity itself. [8] Contemporary understanding of the idea stems largely from the Nietzschean 'crisis of nihilism', from which derive the two central concepts: the destruction of higher values and the opposition to the affirmation of life. [9] [5] Earlier forms of nihilism, however, may be more selective in negating specific hegemonies of social, moral, political and aesthetic thought. [10]Fathers and Sons". Encyclopædia Britannica. Fathers and Sons concerns the inevitable conflict between generations and between the values of traditionalists and intellectuals. Cited in Woodward, Ashley. 2002. " Nihilism and the Postmodern in Vattimo's Nietzsche." Minerva 6. ISSN 1393-614X. Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Veit W. Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Philosophical Problem. Journal of Camus Studies. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.26965.24804 Vincent, the main antagonist of the 2004 film Collateral, believes that life has no meaning because that human nature is intrinsically evil, and that deep down, people care only about themselves.

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Galimberti, Umberto (2008), L'ospite inquietante. Il nichilismo e i giovani, Milano: Feltrinelli. ISBN 9788807171437. Bhikkhu, Thanissaro (1999). " 'This fire that has gone out... in which direction from here has it gone?' ". Mind Like Fire Unbound (Fourthed.) . Retrieved 24 June 2019– via Accesstoinsight.org. Kierkegaard, Søren (1995/1850), Works of Love: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 16, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03792-9. our ordinary moral discourse purports to refer to intrinsically prescriptive properties and facts "that would somehow motivate us or provide us with reasons for action independent of our desires and aversions"—but such properties and facts do not comport with philosophical naturalism. [11] nihilism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (2006a). "Moral Skepticism," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.). ( link) nihilism, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2003; “ nihilism, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. Cooper, Neil (1973). "Moral Nihilism". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 74 (1973–1974): 75–90. doi: 10.1093/aristotelian/74.1.75. JSTOR 4544850. uncountable , psychiatry ) A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist.