This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is ...

A century and a half ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche launched his crusade against the threat of nihilism. Nihilism (literally, nothing-ism) was a term coined by novelist Ivan Turgenev to ...

On January 3, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche walked into legend—and straight out of sanity. In Turin, he saw a carriage driver ...

Most historians view the French Revolution as the source of the ideologies that have shaped the modern and postmodern eras. For any ism—from liberalism, conservatism, and communism to nationalism, ...

At the Vatican’s Good Friday liturgy, the papal preacher warned against the danger of believers being drawn into the “vortex of nihilism” by the postmodern world’s “total relativism.” Capuchin ...

Seinfeld: What’s the show about? Costanza: It’s about nothing. Seinfeld: It’s about nothing? Costanza: Absolutely nothing. Everybody is doing something. We are doing nothing. Seinfeld: I think you may ...

A woman named Brittney Hartley has dubbed herself something of a spiritual explorer after spending years of her life devoted to learning about the human experience and achieving multiple degrees in ...