Nihilism 英文原版 虛無主義 Nolen Gertz

基本信息

By (author) Nolen Gertz

Format Paperback | 224 pages

Dimensions 127 x 178 x 14mm | 204.12g

Publication date 10 Sep 2019

Publisher MIT Press Ltd

Imprint MIT Press

Publication City/Country Cambridge, United States

Language English

Illustrations note No art.

ISBN10 0262537176

ISBN13 9780262537179

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內容簡介

An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.

When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing. “ Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what is meaningful from what is meaningless. In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Although the term “nihilism” was first used by Friedrich Jacobi to criticize the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Gertz shows that the concept can illuminate the thinking of Socrates, Descartes, and others. It is Nietzsche, however, who is most associated with nihilism, and Gertz focuses on Nietzsche's thought. Gertz goes on to consider what is not nihilism―pessimism, cynicism, and apathy―and why; he explores theories of nihilism, including those associated with Existentialism and Postmodernism; he considers nihilism as a way of understanding aspects of everyday life, calling on Adorno, Arendt, Marx, and prestige television, among other sources; and he reflects on the future of nihilism. We need to understand nihilism not only from an individual perspective, Gertz tells us, but also from a political one.

考察無意義的含義：為什麼重要，什麼都不重要。

當某人被貼上虛榮主義者的標籤時，通常並不意味着讚美。我們大多數人將虛無主義與破壞性和暴力聯繫在一起。虛無主義的字面意思是“無意識形態。“虛無主義是什麼，什麼都不相信？還是相信生活一無是處？還是相信我們擁有的信念無濟於事？諾倫·格茨（Nolen Gertz）寫道，如果我們能夠學會認識虛無主義的多種變體，那麼我們就可以學會區分有意義和無意義。除了麻省理工學院出版社的基本知識叢書外，格茨還從蘇格拉底到漢娜·阿倫特和讓·保羅·薩特等人，追溯了西方哲學中的虛無主義歷史。

儘管“虛無主義”一詞最初是由弗里德里希·雅各比（Friedrich Jacobi）用來批評伊曼紐爾·康德（Immanuel Kant）的哲學的，但格茨（Gertz）表示，這一概念可以闡明蘇格拉底，笛卡爾等人的思想。然而，與虛無主義聯繫最密切的是尼采，而格茨則關注尼采的思想。蓋茨繼續思考什麼不是虛無主義-悲觀主義，玩世不恭和冷漠-以及為什麼。他探索了虛無主義的理論，包括與存在主義和後現代主義有關的理論；他認為虛無主義是理解日常生活各個方面的一種方式，他呼籲使用阿多諾，阿倫特，馬克思和威望電視等渠道。他反思了虛無主義的未來。蓋茨告訴我們，我們不僅需要從個人的角度理解虛無主義，而且還需要從政治角度來理解虛無主義。

作者簡介

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Nolen Gertz是荷蘭特温特大學應用哲學的助理教授。