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This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, a genealogy of nothingness can be witnessed in development, with devastating consequences for the way we live.Cunningham, Conor is the author of 'Genealogy of Nihilism Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology' with ISBN 9780415276948 and ISBN 0415276942.
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