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Nihilism
From mysterious villages to absurdism at the gallows, these books explore the origins, consequences, and possible responses to nihilism.
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"The thing that the nihilist recognizes is that the values he or she holds are not grounded in anything other than their own preferences."
Each of these stories rests on a foundation of great ideas that will scare you to death and make you think.
If you feel like you're missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
In "The History of Western Philosophy," Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn't.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
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Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.