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The specter of the absurd : sources and criticisms of modern nihilism /
This book is our century's most comprehensive and wise treatment of nihilism in all of its guises, comparing favorably with Rosen, Cavell, and indeed with Spengler. Crosby argues that our culture is genuinely haunted by nihilism expressing itself in the fideism of fundamentalism as well as in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1988.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one : introduction
- Experiencing the absurd
- Types of nihilism
- Part two : arguments for nihilism
- Arguments about God, nature, suffering, and time
- Arguments about reason, will, and other persons
- Part three : a critical look at religious sources of nihilism
- Anthropocentrism, externality of value, and religion as theism
- God's all seeing eye, search for certainty, and deprecation of the world
- Part four : a critical look at philosophical sources of nihilism
- Correspondence-substance and the hegemony of science
- Truth through method and seeds of nihilism in the thought of Descartes
- The subjectivist turn in epistemology, philosophy of language, and ethics
- Social-political individualism, fact-value dichotomy, and primacy of will
- Part five : final appraisal
- The case again nihilism : lessons of refutations.