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Nihilism by Nolen Gertz
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Disappointing � the book consists of a series of almost perverse inversions of common understandings of nihilism, and is afflicted by a meander “oh-and-another-thing� mode or argumentation that oscillates between tendentious readings of mostly continental philosopher and random examples from American pop culture. Nietzsche is rightly given his due as the intellectual lodestar of nihilism, but ultimately Hannah Arendt is wheeled in to provide the argument that a properly political life is the antidote to nihilism. But why we need an antidote is not made clear.
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August 3, 2021 – Started Reading
August 6, 2021 – Shelved
August 6, 2021 – Finished Reading
September 8, 2021 – Shelved as: intellectual-history

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mohave Great logic: since you are ignorant about nihilism, you accuse and critic the book that helped you to know what nihilism actually is.


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Jeremy "the book consists of a series of almost perverse inversions of common understandings of nihilism" This is exactly how it comes across to me.


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