New book explores Heidegger's critique of Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism
Published 20 January 2011
The Movement of Nihilism, edited by Laurence Hemming, Bogdan Costea and Kostas Amiridis, and due to be published on 1 February 2011, aims to grasp Nietzsche’s prescience through Heidegger’s critique of his understanding of nihilism.
When Nietzsche announced ‘the advent of nihilism’ in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching ‘the history of the next two centuries.’
‘For some time now,’ he wrote, ‘our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.’
Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche’s warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche’s prescience through Heidegger's critique of it, and so by attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition.
The book also provides a fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger. “Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy” presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of modern European thought. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the discipline.
Laurence Paul Hemming is a Visiting Research Fellow, Kostas Amiridis a Lecturer and Bogdan Costea a Senior Lecturer. All three are currently based in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School.
