Sentences with phrase «seeming nihilism»

Seeing it again, the movie, for all its violence and seeming nihilism, is a sustained argument for the personal significance of all people and the need for personal love.

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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.

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.

On the other hand, anyone who denies that there is a higher law seems to embrace nihilism, and therefore to leave the powerless unprotected from the whims of whoever controls the law - making apparatus.

(p. 99) «Nietzsche's atheism is thus a corollary of his basic commitment to question all premises and to reject them unless they are for some reason inescapable... To escape nihilism — which seems involved both in asserting the existence of God and thus robbing this world of ultimate significance, and also in denying God and thus robbing everything of meaning and value — that is Nietzsche's greatest and most persistent problem.»

It has always seemed to some of Barth's critics that his «bifurcation» of the church would lead inevitably to ecclesial nihilism.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

Yet this liberation seems to lead to a relativism that borders on nihilism.

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 middle age, he seems to have settled for a dangerously romantic nihilism that is fearful of invasions of migrants, whether human or otherwise.

Akin's sense of helplessness borders on nihilism of the sort that makes vigilante action seem the most reliable recourse.

However, when we examine 2 of his latest films (white ribbon and cache), it seems to me what stands out is his ability to use the concept of mystery and show the viewer that in cinema, as in life, there are things beyond our understanding, and nihilism isn't so bad if you can accept that.

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

Remembering director Jonathan Liebesman's astounding work on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, I held out hope that his latest would expound on the wartime nihilism that seemed to pique his interest.

It may be wishful thinking, but the global nihilism of his earlier projects now seems mere prelude to a surprisingly poignant meditation on fame and its lingering aftereffects.

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.

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

The frustration and near nihilism (another counterproductive trend which seems to be growing) amongst many concerned with AGW are expected sequellae of a misdiagnosis.