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Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie

In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. His analysis shows that nihilism is not the result of the death of God, as Nietzsche believed; but the consequence of a new idea of God as a God of will who overturns all eternal standards of truth and justice.

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Book Title	Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillesp
Subject Area	Philosophy
Publication Name	Nihilism before Nietzsche
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Item Length	0.9 in
Subject	General, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year	1996
Type	Textbook
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
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Author	Michael Allen Gillespie
Item Weight	16.9 Oz
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Number of Pages	336 Pages

<div>In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject.<br><br>Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie focuses on the crucial turning points in the development of nihilism, from Ockham and the nominalist revolution to Descartes, Fichte, the German Romantics, the Russian nihilists and Nietzsche himself. His analysis shows that nihilism is not the result of the death of God, as Nietzsche believed; but the consequence of a new idea of God as a God of will who overturns all eternal standards of truth and justice. To understand nihilism, one has to understand how this notion of God came to inform a new notion of man and nature, one that puts will in place of reason, and freedom in place of necessity and order.</div>