Nihilism and Truth in Philosophy
In: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Truth and world -- Truth and wisdom -- Socratic truth -- Truth and time -- 1 The True World -- The two worlds -- Whence worldlessness? -- The Christian world -- Spinoza's world -- 2 Cynic Nihilism -- Phusis -- Foucault's Cynics -- Apolis -- Negation -- 3 Paul's World -- A genealogy of cosmos -- Paul against empire -- Anti-cosmos -- Badiou's anti-cosmos -- 4 Paul: Nihilist or Overman? -- The reactive Paul -- The active Paul -- Paul the Overman -- The messianic vocation -- 5 Nietzsche's World -- Nietzsche's anti-cosmos -- The true world is a lie -- 'The world is perfect'4 -- Heidegger's Nietzsche -- 6 Heidegger's World -- Being-in-the-world -- Freedom and finitude -- The Nothing -- Nihilism -- 7 Parrhesia -- Parrhesia in the polis -- Philia -- Socrates's last words -- Philaletheia -- Conclusion -- References -- Index