Autorentext

Nolen Gertz is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Coordinator of the Human Condition Research Line of ESDIT, and a Senior Researcher of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology. He is the author of The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), Nihilism and Technology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and Nihilism (MIT Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.

Klappentext

Nihilism is a concise yet thorough collection of excerpts and essays on the fascinating cross-disciplinary topic of nihilism, providing readers with an historical guided tour of the subject's treatment throughout the history of philosophy, alongside an expertly curated selection of contemporary views, giving the student all they need to form their own views and specialise in the topic.