nihilism
11nihilism — by Rex Butler Nietzsche is one of Baudrillard s defining influences. He is one of the few thinkers whose presumptions are not turned against them as Baudrillard was to do with Marx in The Mirror of Production (1975 [1973]) and Saussure in… …
12nihilism — nihilist, n., adj. nihilistic, adj. /nuy euh liz euhm, nee /, n. 1. total rejection of established laws and institutions. 2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity. 3. total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at… …
13Nihilism — A philosophical doctrine most prodigiously articulated by German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) first and foremost and then Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). Nihilists were also followers and sympathizers of the Nihilist movement, a… …
14nihilism — [[t]na͟ɪɪlɪzəm[/t]] N UNCOUNT Nihilism is a belief which rejects all political and religious authority and current ideas in favour of the individual. Why should a great community like a university be afraid of nihilism?. Derived words: nihilist… …
15nihilism — noun /ˈnʌɪ(h)ɨ̞lɪz(ə)m,ˈnɪhɨ̞lɪz(ə)m,ˈniː(h)ɨ̞lɪz(ə)m,ˈnaɪəˌlɪz(ə)m,ˈniəˌlɪz(ə)m/ a) Extreme skepticism, maintaining that nothing has a real existence. ...the band members sweat hard enough to earn their pretensions, and maybe even their nihilism …
16NIHILISM — the principles of a movement on the part of the educated classes in Russia which repudiates the existing creed and organisation of society, and insists on a root and branch wholesale abolition of them and a reconstruction of them on… …
17nihilism — noun she could not accept Bacon s nihilism, his insistence that man is a futile being Syn: skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism; disbelief, unbelief, agnosticism, atheism …
18Nihilism (disambiguation) — Nihilism may refer to Nihilism, a philosophical position which argues that Being is without objective meaning, purpose, truth, or value. Nihilist movement, a cultural movement in 1860s Russia Mereological nihilism, disbelief in parts and wholes… …
19nihilism — noun Etymology: German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil nothing more at nil Date: circa 1817 1. a. a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless b. a doctrine that denies any objective… …
20nihilism — 1. In psychiatry, the delusion of the nonexistence of everything, especially of the self or part of the self. 2. Engagement in acts that are totally destructive to one s own purposes and those of one s group. [L. nihil, nothing] therapeutic n. a… …
