Word: nihilisme
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"College students today think and speak in a jargon of nihilism," Allan Bloom, professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago, told an audience of 100 last night at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics Forum.
In a speech on "Easygoing Nihilism: The Contemporary University Education," Bloom charged that students are unwilling to appear intolerant of other cultures by taking strong moral stands.
In the violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless...
Despite these impressive figures, government polls indicate that a scant 30% of the population today claim to have any real personal religious beliefs. Many scholars trace the reasons for this void to the social shocks of World War II, which left a widespread legacy of nihilism. As large numbers of...
Given this nihilism, this self-loathing that seems the dark side of narcissism, why does Kafka remain, 100 years after his birth, one of the authentic voices of the age? The answer lies in this centenary volume, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories. His tales, some no more than a paragraph...