Nihilism Before Nietzsche

by Michael Allen Gillespie

Book Overview

In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject.

Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226293483
• ISBN13: 9780226293486
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"