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1	The rebel more books like this by Albert Camus "The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
2	Demons more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator) During a time of revolution, Nikolay Stavrogin, a brilliant but alienated young aristocrat, becomes a criminal, a degenerate, and an exploiter of women because of his inability to feel genuine emotion. Dostoyevsky hoped, in this novel, to rally the Russian upper classes to turn away from their own nihilistic self-absorption and identify with the ... see all copies from $4.34! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Experience of Nothingness more books like this by Michael Novak This volume shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies, and details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.94! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Glass Bees more books like this by Ernst Junger, Lousie Bogan (Translator), Louise Bogan (Translator) Published in 1957 and set sometime in the future, Ernst Juenger's unsettling dystopian novel is about a world dominated by Zapparoni, a businessman who manufactures frighteningly lifelike robots. Zapparoni hires Richard, a war hero and former cavalry officer (as was Juenger), to head his security staff, putting him--as part of his initiation- ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $7.98! \| SVS
5	The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West more books like this by Hermann Rauschning see all copies from $3.00! new only from $23.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law more books like this by Gianni Vattimo, Professor William McCuaig (Translator) A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Catholic Church, an outspoken liberal but not a former ... see all copies from $6.35! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
7	The Universe Next Door: A Basic World View Catalog more books like this by James W Sire This catalog of worldviews by James W. Sire clearly explains the differences between theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, and Eastern monism, with additional material on Marxism, humanism and New Age philosophy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.75!
8	The Universe Next Door more books like this by James W Sire see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.56! \| signed copies
9	The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism 1860-1930 more books like this by Mr. Richard Stites see all copies from $9.13! new only from $63.94! \| SVS
10	The Opening of Vision: Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation more books like this by David Michael Levin, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision. He demonstrates that the sufferings, needs and injustices of our world are connected to a mode of vision ... see all copies from $16.43! new only from $34.54! \| SVS
11	The Body's Recollection of Being: Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism more books like this by David Michael Levin, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our gestures and movements ... see all copies from $33.00! new only from $41.39! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Nihilism : its origin and nature with a Christian answer more books like this by Helmut Thielicke Professor Thielicke's lectures on nihilism deal with the experience of nothingness in Europe after World War II, and trace the development of the "ism" which attempts to interpret that experience. see all copies from $5.00! first editions
13	Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction more books like this by Tonglin Lu This feminist perspective on Chinese modernism focuses on six writers: Lu Xun, Mo Yan, Can Xue, Zhaxi Dawa, Su Tong, and Yu Hua. Partly because Confucianism perceived women and fiction as inferior, radical intellectuals in modern China used them to represent their subversive positions. Women and fiction became related by a shared inferiority. Lu ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism more books like this by Bernard Reginster Among all the great thinkers of the past 200 years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place - not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed in his works. Central among these concerns is the question of the meaning of a life characterised by ... see all copies from $18.17! new only from $18.17! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age more books like this by Eugene Rose Fr. Seraphim Rose brings a religious perspective to the greatest issue of our day: nihilism, or the belief that all truth is relative. From the communism of Lenin and Stalin to the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini or the restlessness and despair of contemporary youth, ethical relativism distorts our cultural values. Nihilism examines this trend ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.10!
16 view cover	Several perceptions more books like this by Angela Carter Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $10.32! \| first editions
17 view cover	The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture more books like this by Gianni Vattimo Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn. see all copies from $12.95! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Death of God and the Meaning of Life more books like this by Julian Young What is the meaning of life? In the post-modern, post-religious scientific world, this question is becoming a preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major figures in philosophy had something to say on the subject, as Julian Young illustrates in this book. Part One of the book presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato ... see all copies from $30.09! new only from $30.70! \| SVS
19 view cover	Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities more books like this by Robert G Morrison Robert Morrison offers an illuminating comparative study of two linked and interacting traditions that have had great influence in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche saw a direct historical parallel between the cultural situation of his own time and of the India of the Buddhas age: the emergence of ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $40.41! \| SVS
20 view cover	Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche Without Masks more books like this by Ofelia Schutte Nietzsche is regarded by some as a great liberator, a thinker far more radical than Marx. For others, he is an ideologue of power, a spokesman for domination, a protofascist. Ofelia Schutte holds that these conflicting assessments result from a failure to distinguish between two paradigms of power found in Nietzsche's work: power as recurring ... see all copies from $10.02! new only from $24.70! \| first editions
21	Travels in Nihilon more books like this by Alan Sillitoe see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism more books like this by Karl Lowith, Richard Wolin (Editor), Gary Steiner (Translator) Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $28.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation more books like this by Daniel Athearn This book shows that the breakoff of narrative causal explanation in physics, although remarkable, is no basis for the negative view of scientific knowledge. It demonstrates that radiation and field phenomena, which include a wide array of enigmatic facts, are amenable to explanation even in their most puzzling details. see all copies from $7.49! new only from $27.00!
24	Nihilism and Culture more books like this by Johan Goudsblom see all copies from $34.47! first editions
25 view cover	Yes more books like this by Thomas Bernhard, Ewald Osers The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scientist, his endless talks with the strange Asian woman mean release from his condition, but for the Persian woman, as her own circumstances deteriorate, ... see all copies from $8.06! new only from $8.06! \| first editions \| SVS

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