Wreckers, The
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Wreckers, The. Opera in 3 acts by Ethel Smyth to lib. in Fr. by ‘ H. B. Laforestier’ ( Harry Brewster) and composer. Comp. 1903–4. Prod. Leipzig, 1906; London 1909.
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NIHILISM IN ITALY
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...by the elaboration of the theme of "nihilism." Distinguished Italian philosophers...From time to time, the discussion about nihilism reaches a wider public, and the Italian...theme. But what exactly is meant by nihilism, and what justifies its alleged philosophical...
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Nihilism before Nietzsche.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; GILLESPIE, Michael Allen. Nihilism before Nietzsche. Chicago: The...such a standard is the one thing nihilism cannot allow. It is given to us...see the tragedy and the comedy of nihilism. One might therefore be inclined...
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"Complete Nihilism" in Nietzsche
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...morality is for Nietzsche the history of nihilism, the story of creation must also be...although Nietzsche himself speaks of nihilism as a merely "pathological transitional...human history, to see the phenomenon of nihilism in this manner is to misconstrue its...
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THEOLOGICAL NIHILISM AND ITALIAN PHILOSOPHY
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; In her provocative essay "Nihilism in Italy," Franca D'Agostini argues against the possibility of rendering a philosophically coherent position on nihilism. In short, nihilism, which is rife with logical contradictions, cannot be...
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Leo Strauss on "German Nihilism": learning the art of writing.
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Ideas; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Rauschning, author of The Revolution of Nihilism: A Warning to the West. (1) The other...contextualized analysis of the lecture "German Nihilism"-unpublished until 19992--itself...nihilistic motive under-lying German nihilism." Here Strauss contrasts open and closed...
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Terza Navigatione: Nichilismo e metafisica The Third Voyage: Nihilism and Metaphysics.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Nichilismo e metafisica (The Third Voyage: Nihilism and Metaphysics). Rome: Azmando...precisely, it is much ado about the nihilism that presently smothers Western philosophy and culture. Mired in nihilism, contemporary philosophy and culture...
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Nihilism, errancy, and truth in Pirandello's Cosi e (se vi pare) (1).(Otto/Novecento)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Italica; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...INTRODUCTION: THE AMBIGUOUS FORMS OF NIHILISM Luigi Pirandello's Cosi e (se vi pare...is, from start to finish, a form of nihilism because it precludes any ambiguity within...play is a "paradigm" of relativistic nihilism. But, while assessing this claim...
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Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern: The (Hi)Story of a Difficult Relationship from Romanticism to Postmodernism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern: The (Hi...summarize the book: Will Slocombe finds nihilism inherent in the history of modernity...modernity (p. 53), wishes to argue that nihilism goes together with the sublime. He regards...
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Meaning matters: education and the nihilism of the neocons.
Magazine article from: Journal of Thought; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...His observations on the prevalence of nihilism and its consequences will surely stand...intellectual. West first began addressing nihilism as it impacted the lives of too many...work Race Matters. There, he defined nihilism as the "lived experience of coping with...
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Annihilating nihilism.(God and the Between)(Book review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...philosopher--is a Nietzschean preoccupation with nihilism. Nietzsche, who called nihilism the unwelcome guest waiting at the door, wanted...Desmond, however, sees that a thoroughgoing nihilism would deprive us of any standard, framework...
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Nihilism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
NIHILISM. In a history that spans more than two and a half centuries, the term nihilism has been employed to denote a wide range of...extreme. Early History of the Term The word nihilism is constructed from the Latin nihil, "nothing...
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Nihilism and Nihilists
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
NIHILISM AND NIHILISTS Nihilism was a tendency of thought among the Russian intelligentsia around...increasingly radical ideas in each new generation after the 1840s. "Nihilism" was a term that was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev...
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nihilism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
nihilism , theory of revolution popular among Russian...his novel Fathers and Sons (1861). Nihilism stressed the need to destroy existing...with the revolutionary measures of 1917. Nihilism was too diffuse and negative to persist...
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900 NIHILISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE Ü BERMENSCH...Nietzsche went mad in 1889 and died in 1900. NIHILISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE Ü BERMENSCH...The last point leads to the problem of nihilism. Nihilism (from nihil , Latin for nothing...
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Intelligentsia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...among Russian intelligentsia called "nihilism" (from the Latin nihil meaning reject). Some historians believe that nihilism was a reaction of part of Russian...government in the Crimean War. The term nihilism was popularized by the Russian author...
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