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... with their claim to cultivate traditional values and restore order? This paper reflects on the complex recent histories—of neoliberalism, of nihilism, and of what Marcuse termed “repressive desublimation”—that generate the force and legitimacy of this novel development in Euro-Atlantic political life. Licensed...

... on which law encroaches. The article concludes by suggesting that contemporary encroachments of law constitute a danger, akin to the growth of nihilism (in Nietzsche's sense), to which Benjamin's essay seeks to alert its readers. Works Cited Benjamin Walter . Gesammelte Schriften , 7 vols...

... the impossibility of producing new knowledges or criticizing existing ones. It thereby obfuscates Marx's critical position and presents it as just another moment in a prevalent discourse of Orientalism. Such structuralism cannot but lapse into a Nietzschean nihilism incapable of accounting for the emergence...

... with norms that are externalized and, in effect, arbitrary. Nelson's critique of legal positivism (a “juridical nihilism” that he blames for having produced a “practical nihilism in national life” as a result of reducing the concept of law to custom and a fortuitous equilibrium holding in check mutually...

... the dead-end of metaphysics, on the one hand, and nihilism, on the other. 54 This twofold negation, of existence and nonexistence as well as of subject and object, is one of the central aspects of Nāgārjuna's argument and one of the reasons he is regarded as the founder and principal proponent...

... nihilism.” He argues that this synthesis of structuralism with antirationalism reaffirms the unity of reason ( wihdat al-aql ), foreclosing the emancipatory potentialities of rationality. How do we make sense of this assertion? The structuralist account of discourse determines subjectivity and produces...

...” as a characteristically modern phenomenon leading to resentment and nihilism. As an alternative, she suggests an orientation of “a fundamental gratitude for the few elementary things that indeed are invariably given to us, such as life itself.” As a political attitude, gratitude equals an affirmation of the “tremendous...

... obstetrics, did upper-class European society begin to experience a placental disenchantment and dispose of the organ unremarkably. In a lovely take on anomie, Sloterdijk suggests that the modern individual self is the product of a “placental nihilism” that imagines it came into the world alone. We suffer...

... hope we discover in that archive can still help us to respond persuasively to the narcissism and nihilism associated with Afro-pessimist refusals of politics. It can indicate a productive orientation from which we might discover replies to the hateful, paranoid pronouncements of the alt-right...

...://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41681 . Sharpe Christina . In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Warren Calvin . Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Wolf Bekah . “ Title VI...

... of the turath would equip the contemporary Arab liberation movement with “an intellectual, ideological and political weapon to confront the regressive weapons of psychological warfare, nihilism and cosmopolitanism, isolationism, racism, etc.” (quoted in Barhuma, al-Turath , 56 ). On the controversial...

... philosophic relativism or pragmatism, [it] is nothing but cynicism and nihilism.” 59. Arendt, OT , 368 . 58. Arendt, OT , 347 . 57. Arendt, OT , 465, 467 . 56. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism , 18, 214 . Finchelstein also qualifies fascism as “fully entropic” ( From Fascism...