Nihilism is the belief that life is without purpose, meaning, or any intrinsic value. It suggests that everything is ultimately meaningless and rejects traditional morals, values, and social norms. Full definition
Akin's sense of helplessness borders on nihilism of the sort that makes vigilante action seem the most reliable recourse. (vulture.com)
He has also proved once more the truth of what Europe's greatest historian of the Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, said at the onset of modern nihilism in the late nineteenth century: «It is for this reason that posterity needs to study the Greeks: if we ignore them we are simply accepting our own decline.» (firstthings.com)
What is clear is that he saw his philosophical genealogy of nihilism as also an account of how Western humanity as a whole has arrived at an essentially nihilistic way of living on the earth. (firstthings.com)