Names of nihil / Arvydas Sliogeris ; translated from Lithuanian by Robertas Beinartas; preface by Leonidas Donskis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Šliogeris, Arvydas.

Series:

On the boundary of two worlds ; 14.

On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 14

Standardized Title:

Niekio vardai. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nothing (Philosophy).

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, an attempt has been made to point out and systematically explicate the problem scope of the Nothing (which is called Nihil in the book) and to try to explain the springhead of the excessive negativity, inherent only in the human being, or in other words, the springhead of the human’s natural nihilism. Nihilism is treated here not as a posture, pose, or an ideological attitude, but as the spread of the human metaphysical nucleus, of Nihil. Nihilistic annihilation, manifesting itself as the road of the naming of Nihil and of the production of thingly crystals (artificial world) as a result of that naming, usually is called “history”. Names of Nihil (language phenomena), being the antithesis of Nihil, falsify and cover up Nihil itself, turning it into “supreme” being, e.g. into “the One”, “God”, “Substance”, “Matter”, “Spirit”, ad infinitum . This book should be interesting not only to philosophers or humanitarians, but also to all those who concern themselves with the total human condition.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Author’s Word

The Beginning and Language

Dedications

An Interpretation

Notes.

Notes:

Translation of: Niekio vardai.

ISBN:

94-012-0588-4

1-4356-4710-6

OCLC:

714567191

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205887 DOI