An inexorable, fundamental, and deepest suspicion about ourselves that is more and more gaining worse and worse control of us Europeans and that could easily confront coming generations with the terrifying Either /Or: Either abolish your reverences or yourselves! The latter would be nihilism; but would not the former also be nihilism? Friedrich Nietzsche

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Foreword Introduction: Beyond Nihilism? Paul van Tongeren 1. Is Nietzsche a Philosopher? Adriaan T. Peperzak 2. Tugend, Grausamkeit und Empathie Jean-Pierre Wils 3. Nietzsche's Challenge,Virtue Ethics and Hermeneutics Marcel Becker 4. Living with Nihilism Vasti Roodt 5. Orientation within Nihilism Werner Stegmaier 6. Nihilism and Fiction Frank Chouraqui 7. Resisting Nihilism Herman Siemens 8. Dem Nihilismus entkommen Oswaldo Giacoia jr 9. Ist die Wahrheit ein Weib? Gerard Visser 10. A Hermeneutics of Attestation Gert-Jan van der Heiden 11. What Does Nihilism Deny? James E. Faulconer Postscript: Concluding Comments and Questions Paul van Tongeren