Nihilism Unbound: Strauss, Nietzsche and Foucault as Nihilist Thinkers

Many of the writings of Leo Strauss were dedicated to combating the "crisis of modernity". This crisis was for him the advent and acceptance of nihilism--a state of being wherein any principle one dare dream is allowed and judgment must be withheld. He claimed that the promotion of nihilis...

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Main Author: Wade, Jeffrey Jacob
Format: Others
Published: PDXScholar 2010
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Online Access:https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/396
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1395&context=open_access_etds