Sentences with phrase «called nihilism»

So called nihilism.

(The so - called nihilism of Joel and Ethan Coen might be understood as a related phenomenon.)

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Deneen's immediate source for the Founding = Locke = THE FEDERALIST = individualistic techno - nihilism is what Paul Seaton astutely called the anti-Founderism of his brilliant and wonderful teacher Carey McWilliams.

Often called neo-reactionaries but better understood as classicists, a third group of French thinkers refuses both nihilism and Islamism.

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom called it «debonair nihilism,» which might be described as a flirtation with nothingness that has nothing as a consequence.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Heidegger seems to me obviously correct in regarding modernity's nihilism as the fruition of seeds sown in pagan soil; and Nietzsche also correct to call attention to Christianity's shocking — and, for the antique order of noble values, irreparably catastrophic — novelty; but neither grasped why he was correct.

Although it has been called perhaps the most radical «nihilism» that has ever existed, Madhyamika does away with both affirmation and negation; when both modes of action have been quieted, the spirit enters into perfect stillness.

So it is that modernity culminates in an historically inevitable and eschatologically ultimate nihilism, that nihilism which Nietzsche enacts most profoundly, but this very nihilism necessarily calls forth its reversal and transcendence in an absolute apocalypse.

i respect your love of the club, even if it's a nihilistic manner (if you» r that expert in english you must understand what nihilism means) and a sadic one, frankly, But you can not deny that the stupid protest of the so called w.o.b last year made the atmosphere around the club toxic and are partly responsible of thedropout of the Champions league

That's what I call genetic nihilism.

A piece in the New York Times called Stella «the Cézanne of nihilism, the master of ennui».

ritics, attempting to describe this new sensibility, call it Cool Art or Idiot Art or Know - Nothing Nihilism.

The third edition of the Endless Biennial is an open - call exhibition of over 60 artists exploring the unlikely theme of nihilism.