Oh no, it's so predictable that Nietzsche described it in depth, endlessly warned about it - and he was building off of Dostoyevsky (and further back, who else but Shakespeare) as well as his own meditations - nihilism produces these crackpot fascist cults (and the far left versions) ----
Oh no, it's so predictable that Nietzsche described it in depth, endlessly warned about it - and he was building off of Dostoyevsky (and further back, who else but Shakespeare) as well as his own meditations - nihilism produces these crackpot fascist cults (and the far left versions) ----
Nihilism
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy. While few philosophers would claim to be nihilists, nihilism is most often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that its corrosive effects would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions and precipitate the greatest crisis in human history. In the 20th century, nihilistic themes–epistemological failure, value destruction, and cosmic purposelessness–have preoccupied artists, social critics, and philosophers. Mid-century, for example, the existentialists helped popularize tenets of nihilism in their attempts to blunt its destructive potential. By the end of the century, existential despair as a response to nihilism gave way to an attitude of indifference, often associated with antifoundationalism.
It has been over a century now since Nietzsche explored nihilism and its implications for civilization. As he predicted, nihilism’s impact on the culture and values of the 20th century has been pervasive, its apocalyptic tenor spawning a mood of gloom and a good deal of anxiety, anger, and terror. Interestingly, Nietzsche himself, a radical skeptic preoccupied with language, knowledge, and truth, anticipated many of the themes of postmodernity. It’s helpful to note, then, that he believed we could–at a terrible price–eventually work through nihilism. If we survived the process of destroying all interpretations of the world, we could then perhaps discover the correct course for humankind. ***** The article continues...Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and crucially, "A peer-reviewed academic resource," so jump in, the water's freezing and oh so bracing!
^^^^^ This last is a brilliant PhD dissertation, I am fifty pages in and it is a definitive takedown of a bogus "Nietzsche myth, " with some long understood facts culled from a capacious study of Nietzsche's entire published output in context, as opposed to the often unaccountably tendentious framing of Nietzsche as an arch-enemy of women.
Forget Not the Whip! Nietzsche, Perspectivism, and Feminism: A
Non-Apologist Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Polemical Axiology
^^^^^ This is a book review / essay, equally lucid and devastates a myth that NEVER made textual sense, but still very much worth refuting again and again.
And I disagree with Nietzsche on all sorts of philosophical issues - that's not the point! You can learn so much from him irrespective of strong agreement or caveats about every last idea he sketches out, that's simply beyond reasonable dispute.
He's also incredibly funny, another caricature shattered if you actually read him in much depth.
She brings together a huge array of primary and secondary sources, has relevant, lucid, cogent arguments and considerations to counter and even demolish some of the hapless critics, it's original as all philosophy doctoral theses are required to be, in fact highly original, and the "Nietzsche Myth" connected to it is a live issue.
Oh no, it's so predictable that Nietzsche described it in depth, endlessly warned about it - and he was building off of Dostoyevsky (and further back, who else but Shakespeare) as well as his own meditations - nihilism produces these crackpot fascist cults (and the far left versions) ----
Nihilism
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy. While few philosophers would claim to be nihilists, nihilism is most often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that its corrosive effects would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions and precipitate the greatest crisis in human history. In the 20th century, nihilistic themes–epistemological failure, value destruction, and cosmic purposelessness–have preoccupied artists, social critics, and philosophers. Mid-century, for example, the existentialists helped popularize tenets of nihilism in their attempts to blunt its destructive potential. By the end of the century, existential despair as a response to nihilism gave way to an attitude of indifference, often associated with antifoundationalism.
It has been over a century now since Nietzsche explored nihilism and its implications for civilization. As he predicted, nihilism’s impact on the culture and values of the 20th century has been pervasive, its apocalyptic tenor spawning a mood of gloom and a good deal of anxiety, anger, and terror. Interestingly, Nietzsche himself, a radical skeptic preoccupied with language, knowledge, and truth, anticipated many of the themes of postmodernity. It’s helpful to note, then, that he believed we could–at a terrible price–eventually work through nihilism. If we survived the process of destroying all interpretations of the world, we could then perhaps discover the correct course for humankind. ***** The article continues...Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and crucially, "A peer-reviewed academic resource," so jump in, the water's freezing and oh so bracing!
https://iep.utm.edu/nihilism/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=philosophy_etds
^^^^^ This last is a brilliant PhD dissertation, I am fifty pages in and it is a definitive takedown of a bogus "Nietzsche myth, " with some long understood facts culled from a capacious study of Nietzsche's entire published output in context, as opposed to the often unaccountably tendentious framing of Nietzsche as an arch-enemy of women.
Forget Not the Whip! Nietzsche, Perspectivism, and Feminism: A
Non-Apologist Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Polemical Axiology
Jennifer L. Hudgens
University of Kentucky, jenniferlhudgens@uky.edu
https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/nietzsche-s-hatred-of-jew-hatred
^^^^^ This is a book review / essay, equally lucid and devastates a myth that NEVER made textual sense, but still very much worth refuting again and again.
And I disagree with Nietzsche on all sorts of philosophical issues - that's not the point! You can learn so much from him irrespective of strong agreement or caveats about every last idea he sketches out, that's simply beyond reasonable dispute.
He's also incredibly funny, another caricature shattered if you actually read him in much depth.
She brings together a huge array of primary and secondary sources, has relevant, lucid, cogent arguments and considerations to counter and even demolish some of the hapless critics, it's original as all philosophy doctoral theses are required to be, in fact highly original, and the "Nietzsche Myth" connected to it is a live issue.