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+The term ‘nihilism’ has a hackneyed quality. Too much has been written on
+the topic, and any sense of urgency that the word might once have com-
+municated has been dulled by overexposure. The result is a vocable tainted
+by dreary over-familiarity and nebulous indeterminacy. Nevertheless,
+few other topics of philosophical debate exert such an immediate grip on
+people with little or no interest in the problems of philosophy as the
+claim of nihilism in its most ‘naive’ acceptation: existence is worthless.
+This book was spurred by the conviction that this apparently banal asser-
+tion harbours hidden depths which have yet to be sounded by philoso-
+phers, despite the plethora of learned books and articles on the topic.
+Although the philosophical literature on nihilism is impressively vast,
+comprising several important works from which I have learned much, the
+rationale for writing this book was the conviction that something of fun-
+damental philosophical importance remained unsaid and buried beneath
+the learned disquisitions on the historical origins, contemporary ramifica-
+tions, and long-term implications of nihilism. Indeed, these aspects of the
+topic have been so thoroughly charted that the simplest way to clarify the
+intent of this book is to explain what it does not do