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At a recent public meeting, a man told Gehry that he thought the design represents «permanent winter,» and more pointedly, «death and nihilism.»

God has clearly chosen to work in ways not immediately obvious to us, and we can only assume that He has done so in order that He might be glorified while the vestiges of racism and exclusion, the failed attempts at revitalization, and the nihilism induced by violence might be put to shame.

But if he and Polanyi are right about nihilism (Polanyi's «empty self - assertion») being at the heart of the mentality of a culture dominated by Scientific Positivism then its occurrence is obviously not dependent on the specific form of the doctrine, be it Marxist, Fascist or whatever, in which it is expressed.

In a circumstance of real social crisis, however, the irrationalists might be isolated and prevented from spreading the poison of debonair nihilism throughout the culture, as they do at present.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

at no point did i equate the entirety of atheism with nihilism.

So where were we... I suppose I am mixing in nihilism with atheism, but frankly I see little difference insofar as we all get one s.hot at this life and we're d.ead, as you similarly put it.

When he looks at the literary situation of sixty years ago, I think Gioia is observing the fading light of the modern tradition, which, even in its nihilism and atheism, remained deeply religious — where faith is a necessity not only for prayer but also for painting.

Americans» self - identification with a non-entity must be, if not actually a cause of our nihilism, at least a very clear symptom.

At the heart of modern nihilism, for Nietzsche, is the problem presented by the ascendancy of the modern scientific project - the mathematization of matter or the arbitrary formalization of material structure conceals the real chaos of Being.

If the ascetical way of silence is not carefully qualified by at least some degree of sacramentalism, by the mystical sense of transcendence, and the activist concern for the world, it tends toward nihilism, the view that all things are empty of value.

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

Utopian nihilism fathered such bizarre upheavals as the Bobby Seale episode at Yale in 1970.

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.

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At the moment, however, it seems to me that between the Scylla of atheism and the Charybdis of theocracy, we are steering too close to the whirlpool of atheism and nihilism; that is now the greater threat to Jewish values and life in America.

In Nietzsche's vision, the nihilism in which Western civilization ends was to be at once a collapse into decadence and the fulfillment of an absolute freedom.

It's pure baseball nihilism, and at least we get to study it.

Instead of blaming the market economy for the enervation and destruction of communities, Willetts argued that critics should look at the «moral nihilism» of the 1960s.

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

And that nihilism is at play right now in national politics.

The air of «therapeutic nihilism» that had settled over the obesity field is disappearing, claims Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology at Yale University and one of the leaders of the new wave.

Sevigny was the poster girl for»90s teenage nihilism; her sartorial choices and ability to wear clothes her own way in the ensuing years have endeared her to a generation of girls and the fashion industry at large.

It makes for a pleasing metaphysical subtext to a film with spectacular action sequences, pointed references to the political economics of the class struggle, and a character in Benicio Del Toro whose nihilism carries with it a whiff of Zen philosophy at its purest.

In 1979, when director Penelope Spheeris filmed The Decline of Western Civilization, she looked at punks and punk - rock nihilism.

In at least two occasions, gunfire erupts that ends up (presumably) killing innocent bystanders, but there's nothing funny or remorseful about such shots, further kicking up the cloud of nihilism that suffocates this uneven film until we feel nothing at all about any of it.

Consider how Three Billboards handles the question of moral ambiguity in contrast to the current remake of Murder on the Orient Express (directed by another European, Kenneth Branagh): how McDonagh greets it with the kind of smug nihilism reserved for character - redemption arcs vs. how Branagh treats it with immense sadness at the possibility that there's no such thing as redemption, nor was there ever.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is an exercise in comic nihilism that needs to prompt the audience to laugh, and, if there were indeed a laugh track accompanying the movie, at least someone would be laughing — even if only on a recording.

There's a pretty good twist at the end, and Ray Liotta occasionally pops in to remind you that you really should be watching Goodfellas instead, but these are petty compensations for seeing a film that more readily recalls the easy reductive nihilism of that asshole frat - boy favorite, The Boondock Saints.

Dark though the journey may be, «I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore» ultimately challenges its characters» nihilism, pointing toward a certain strength in togetherness to counter what can feel like overwhelming depression about the state of the world.

Kim Kardashian West here provides us with an existential black hole that the transcendental nihilism of a Ray Brassier can only dream of evoking (in fact, I find it interesting that on pages 256 - 257, somewhere a little past the book's halfway point, we are provided with two pages that have no words or pictures at all, pages that are completely black: it is as if this is symbolic of the black hole at the center of Western society / civilization, with the selfies orbiting it like husks of dead galaxies).

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

In this series, then, one of Germany's most important living artists marries the nihilism of his youth — visible in his superb Sixties drawings and prints currently at the British Museum — with a fearless joy in painting.

Her current show, Tired from Smiling at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town until 27 January, is an hymn to poetic nihilism and disillusionment.

A few years ago, Gerhard Richter made a similar attempt, adding a daub of paint to his photographs and allowing his collectors to bring the joy of German nihilism into their homes at a fraction of the price they thought possible.

The result (or at least one result) of his work is the fusion of the emotional content of Abstract Expressionism with the humor of Pop Art, the reprographic processes of the Pictures artists, and the nihilism of the 1970s punk music scene.

By exploring the fringes of high art and pop culture, Reyle creates often visually spectacular works that simultaneously confront us with a conceptual nihilism, at times incorporating everyday material such as fluorescent paint, neon light, silver Mylar and effect lacquer, most of which are usually considered as suspect in the art world.

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We tumble from one continual social crisis to the next in a fog of capitalist nihilism, so to think that a Britain operating within its own private bureaucracies is to isolate from the political traumas surrounding us at a global scale is a grossly naive and selfish misconception.

The mass psychocybernetics shared by AGW True Believers and the Greek citizenry is palpable and an inability to face facts and confront superstition, fear and ignorance lies at the roots of their self - defeating nihilism.