The Scandinavian Value Nihilists. The Crisis of Democracy in the 1930s and 1940s
In the 1930s and 40s many theories were raised about some kind of connection between relativistic or nihilistic moral theories and the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. In Scandinavia these allegations were directed at the adherents of the value nihilistic theory of Axel Hägerström.This article exp...
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