The Movement of Nihilism Heidegger's Thinking After Nietzsche [Hardcover]

When Nietzsche announced 'the advent of nihilism' in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching 'the history of the next two centuries': 'For some time now', he wrote, 'our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.'

Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche's warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it; attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. The book also provides and fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Laurence Paul Hemming is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Lancaster University, UK.
Kostas Amiridis is a Lecturer in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at Lancaster University, UK.

About the Authors \ 1. Introduction, Laurence Paul Hemming \ 2. The Movement of Nihilism as Self-Assertion, Kostas Amiridis and Bogdan Costea \ 3. Heidegger's Movement of Nihilism' as Political and Metaphysical Critique, Laurence Hemming \ 4. Fighting Nihilism through promoting a new Faith, Thomas Rohkr?mer \ 5. Questioning Politics, or Beyond Power , Miguel de Beistegui \ 6. Living the ?berflu? : Early Christianity and the Flight of Nausea, Hal Broadbent \ 7. Heidegger on Virtue and Technology, Joanna Hodge \ 8. Nihilism and the Thinking of Place, Jeff Malpas \ 9. What Gives Here? Fronhvsi and die G?tter, Susan Frank Parsons \ 10. Myth means: the saying word / The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness. , Johan Siebers \ 11. Coming to Terms with Nihilsim, Heidegger on the Freedom in Technoll£