Nihilism

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• Special Issue: OVERCOMING NIHILISM. Ed. by Arran Gare. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 2, 2011

URL = https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/273/431

A special issue of the ever excellent Cosmos and History, dedicated to progressive critiques of nihilism, edited by Arran Gare. From the introductory article:

"The inertia of most people in affluent Western nations in the face of the corruption of the core institutions of their democracies, including their universities, their disempowerment, the plundering of public wealth, growing economic injustice and economic insecurity, environmental degradation and the threat of a global ecological collapse, has impelled a search for explanations, and in doing so, has forced people to confront the nihilism of modern civilization. It appears that the devaluation of the highest values, and of life itself, and the consequent loss of meaning in people’s lives, is having practical consequences. Nihilism threatens our liberty, the future of civilization and even the global ecosystem which sustains the conditions for life. The papers collected in the present edition were not solicited; nevertheless they can all be seen as grappling with and attempting to overcome this nihilism, and as such form a coherent body of work."