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Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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A refreshing take on nihilism that's insightful at times, but not exactly cutting edge philosophy. Lots of unnecessary name-dropping. It relies mostly on Nietzsche's work, and I just don't like Nietzsche's methodologically sketchy approach of designating anything that's destructive to what he considers human nature to be nihilism. Nothingness and its implications are, imho, definitely not taken seriously enough here, and neither is there enough attention devoted to the justification of the book's normative claims.
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Jul 29, 2021 03:58PM
Probably my main complaint as well. I had the nagging feeling (which became certainty by the last chapter) that the author was using a peculiar definition of humanity and pretended that any deviation from it makes us "inhuman". Hence, of course, his condemnation of futurism, technological and scientific solutions, statistical research, and, I suspect, the whole of post-humanism.
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Thanks for your comment Jorg - happy to see we agree
