Terza Navigatione: Nichilismo e metafisica The Third Voyage: Nihilism and Metaphysics.(Review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: Redpath, Peter A. | Copyright information

POSSENTI, Vittorio. Terza Navigatione: Nichilismo e metafisica (The Third Voyage: Nihilism and Metaphysics). Rome: Azmando Editore, 1998. 413 pp. n.p.--Vittorio Possenti's Terza Navigatione is a much welcome and needed ado about nothing. More precisely, it is much ado about the nihilism that presently smothers Western philosophy and culture. Mired in nihilism, contemporary philosophy and culture attempt to comprehend themselves, and get lost in a nihilistic smog. Instead of recogni...

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