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