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Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger’s Nietzsche

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For Heidegger, modernity is characterised by the comprehension of life in nihilism. This is, moreover, human Dasein’s metaphysical culmination. As such, it is the end of a history inaugurated with the Ancients (if not by them) and whose ‘extreme point’, as we will see Heidegger calling it, is reached with Nietzsche. Nihilism is thus an extremity for human Dasein and for the comprehension of life in general. It is the extremity of metaphysics.

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  1. Department of Visual Arts at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK

    Suhail Malik (Teaches)

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  1. University of Warwick, UK

    Keith Ansell Pearson (Professor of Philosophy) (Professor of Philosophy)

  2. University College Northampton, UK

    Diane Morgan (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies) (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies)

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Malik, S. (2000). Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger’s Nietzsche. In: Pearson, K.A., Morgan, D. (eds) Nihilism Now!. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597761_5

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