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Genealogy of Nihilism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415276948

  • ISBN10:

    0415276942

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-09-20
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Nihilism is the logic of nothing as something, which claims that Nothing Is. Its unmaking of things, and its forming of formless things, strain the fundamental terms of existence: what it is to be, to know, to be known. But nihilism, the antithesis of God, is also like theology. Where nihilism creates nothingness, condenses it to substance, God also makes nothingness creative. Negotiating the borders of spirit and substance, theology can ask the questions of nihilism that other disciplines do not ask: Where is it? What is it made of? Why is it so destructive? How can it be made holy, or overcome? Genealogy of Nihilismrereads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought and is coming to fruition in our present age in a virulently dangerous manner. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of nothingness can bewitnessed in development, with devastating consequences for the way we live. Conor Cunningham's elaborate and sophisticated theology, spanning the disciplines of philosophy, science and popular culture, permits us to see not simply how modernity has formulated its philosophies of nothing, but how these philosophies might be transfigures by the crucial difference theology makes, and so be reconcilable with life and the living - with the very gift which being is.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. xi
Prefacep. xii
Philosophies of Nothingp. 1
Towards Nothingp. 3
Scotus and Ockhamp. 44
Notesp. 57
Spinozap. 59
Kantp. 74
Hegel's Consummate Philosophyp. 100
On the Linep. 131
Notesp. 150
Derridap. 155
Notesp. 163
The Difference of Theologyp. 167
To Speak, to Do, to Seep. 169
Notesp. 208
The Difference Knowledge Makesp. 219
Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theologyp. 235
Conclusionp. 273
Bibliographyp. 276
Indexp. 304
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