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An inexorable, fundamental, and deepest suspicion about ourselves that is more and more gaining worse and worse control of us Europeans and that could easily confront coming generations with the terrifying Either /Or: "Either abolish your reverences or - yourselves!" The latter would be nihilism; but would not the former also be - nihilism?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Foreword

Introduction: Beyond Nihilism?

Paul van Tongeren

1. Is Nietzsche a Philosopher?

Adriaan T. Peperzak

2. Tugend, Grausamkeit und Empathie

Jean-Pierre Wils

3. Nietzsche´s Challenge,Virtue Ethics and Hermeneutics

Marcel Becker

4. Living with Nihilism

Vasti Roodt

5. Orientation within Nihilism

Werner Stegmaier

6. Nihilism and Fiction

Frank Chouraqui

7. Resisting Nihilism

Herman Siemens

8. Dem Nihilismus entkommen

Oswaldo Giacoia jr

9. Ist die Wahrheit ein Weib?

Gerard Visser

10. A Hermeneutics of Attestation

Gert-Jan van der Heiden

11. What Does Nihilism Deny?

James E. Faulconer

Postscript: Concluding Comments and Questions

Paul van Tongeren

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