Word: nihilisme
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Jittering between them like an arc of electricity between positive and negative poles is Robert Duvall as the older predator. Lashing out with desperate nihilism, Duvall crackles with the quality that Ingmar Bergman once said he looked for above all others in an actor: danger.
Last Ditch. The power of Beckett's works springs from a contradiction deeper than theories and more profound than nihilism. Like the hobos, clowns, cripples and basket cases who make up his cast of characters, Beckett is a Poet of the Last Ditch, a Bard of the Bitter End...
It was a case of ad hominem; the man is easy to attack. His thought is far less susceptible to predators. To Kierkegaard, reason was devouring faith, like a snake swallowing its own tail. The solution was a radical renewal of Christian belief. To Nietzsche, humanity's theological license...
Pannenberg speaks from the experience of his youth. Brought up as a Nazi atheist, he fought his way free of Hitlerian nihilism and underwent an intellectual conversion to Christianity. Pannenberg first won renown in the 1960s as a member of the "revelation as history" school in theology. He accused the...
BUT THERE was an ominous note to the second race, begun sometime around the beginning of the oil boycott, but perhaps before the 55 mph speed limit. Several entrants showed up at the garage that nobody knew. Doped up and pilled up and on the wrong side of the thin...